WORD DETAIL
俳人
はいじん
Examples
Included kanji
Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
俳人(はいじん)means a poet who writes俳句(はいく), or haiku. - Basic usage: It is used for a haiku writer describing travel scenery or speaking about seasonal words.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- The work and its writer
俳句is the poem, while俳人is the person who writes it.詩人(しじん)is a broader word for a poet and is not limited to haiku writers.
- Words indicating a season
季語(きご)is a word indicating a season and can be a topic in a discussion of haiku.

