During the great flourishing of the haiku poetic form, which began with Shiki MATSUOKA, Torahiko TERADA wrote an essay on renku, one of the first such writings to focus on renga.
正岡子規にはじまる近代俳句の隆盛のなかで、連句に注目した早い時期のものとして、寺田寅彦の随筆があげられる。