Hototogisu (ホトトギス, "lesser cuckoo") is a Japanese literary magazine focusing primarily on haiku.
[3] At the same time, the magazine's scope was expanded to include tanka and haibun as well as haiku, and Shiki began publishing essays in his shaseibun ("sketch from life") prose style.
[4] It had established itself as Japan's leading haiku magazine by this time, and the first Tokyo edition sold out on its first day.
[5] Following Shiki's death in 1902, the magazine's focus shifted to the fiction of modernist writers such as Natsume Sōseki, but in 1912, Kyoshi once again began including haiku.
[6] In 1916, Kyoshi initiated the "Kitchen Miscellanies" column in Hototogisu to promote the writings of women haiku poets such as Hisajo Sugita.