A few posts ago i was identifying these pictures as "etegami," which, strictly speaking they are not. What they are is "haiga," which, to put it crudely, are illustrated haiku. Etegami are sent through the mail and I've been sending these haiga through the mail so they are functioning as etegami. But, wait, they aren't exactly haiga either, since the verse is not a haiku but really a tanka (a Japanese 5-line poem traditionally written in 5-7-5-7-7 syllables, though usually composed of less syllables in English). So what we have here isn't an etegami or a haiga. It's something in-between; in other words, there isn't a specific word to describe what they are: so, in the meantime, they're nothing at all.
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