On (Japanese prosody) On (Japanese prosody) The term On (rarely "Onji") refers to counting phonetic sounds in Japanese poetry. In the Japanese language, the word ""on"" (音) means "sound". It is used to mean the phonetic units counted in haiku, tanka, and other such poetic forms. Known as "morae" to English-speaking linguists, the modern Japanese term for the linguistic concept is either "haku" () or "mōra" (). Ji (字) is Japanese for "symbol" or "character". The concatenation of the two words ""on"" and ""ji"" into ""onji"" (音字) was used by Meiji era grammarians to mean "phonic character" and was translated into English by
Haiku in English Turtle Light Press. In the UK, the British Haiku Society publishes "Blithe Spirit", and the World Haiku Club publishes "The World Haiku Review". Another leading haiku magazine in the UK is "Presence" (formerly "Haiku Presence"), which was edited for many years by Martin Lucas (1962-2014). In Ireland, twenty issues of "Haiku Spirit" edited by Jim Norton were published between 1995 and 2000. "Shamrock", the online journal of the Irish Haiku Society edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, has been publishing international haiku in English since 2007. In Australia, twenty issues of "Yellow Moon", a literary magazine for writers of haiku and other