In the late 19th century, Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), renamed the stand-alone hokku to haiku, and the latter term is now generally applied retrospectively to all hokku appearing independently of renku or renga, irrespective of when they were written.
U kasnom 19. stoljeću Shiki Masaoka (1867.–1902.) preimenovao je samostalni hokku u haiku, te se potonji pojam danas uglavnom retrospektivno primjenjuje na sav hokku koji se pojavio neovisno od renkua ili renge, bez obzira na to kad je napisan.