Possible Clues:

• In Shanghai, kudos for Japanese verse
• Epigrammatic Japanese verse
• Loud birdcall audibly represented in Eastern poetry
• Euphoric, speak gently reading out Japanese poem
• Evocative three-line verse
• This country is back — after having an illness — that's just for starters
• Verse with 17 syllables
• Verse Henry adapted in Kyoto unobtrusively initially
• Japanese poetic form with a 5-7-5 syllabic pattern
• 'What Richard Wright wrote' could be the first line of one