Possible Clues:

• Japanese verse form with 17 syllables in three short phrases
• Epigrammatic Japanese poem
• Loud bird-call audible in poem
• Verse often inspired by nature
• Kobayashi Issa poem
• Winding up high-class motor company -- hard lines
• Lines from 60s musical briefly lifted nation
• Poem like 'The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer's small herald'
• 5-7-5 verse
• Noble, with great success, recited poetic lines