Japanese verse (5)
I believe the answer is:
haiku
'japanese verse' is the definition.
(type of Japanese poem)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for haiku that I've seen before include "Eastern poetry" , "Pithy lines" , "Jap 17 syllable poem" , "Japanese poem of seventeen syllables comprising three lines" , "Japanese three-line poem of 17 syllables" .)