qijue 七絕), known in Japan as shichigon-zekku (七言絶句) is a type of jueju poetry form consisting of four phrases each seven Chinese characters (or kanji) in length.
Shichigon-zekku are the most common form of classical Chinese poems (kanshi), and the standard form of shigin (Japanese chanted poetry).
Thousands of miles of birds' singing, light green along the Yangtze river; Ponds and hills circling the village with flags in the soothing wind; Amid the four hundred and eighty temples of the Southern Dynasties; How many terraces are in the misty cold rains?
仙客来遊雲外巓 神龍棲老洞中渕 雪如丸素煙如柄 白扇倒懸東海天 "Mount Fuji"
This great peak above the clouds, where hermit-wizards came for sport The deep pools of whose caverns holy dragons have inhabited from old The snow is like white silk, the rising smoke like a handle A great white fan inverted, in the heavens above the eastern sea This Japanese literature–related article is a stub.