Literary work/with a format that's concise/first penned in Japan (5)

I believe the answer is:

haiku

(Other definitions for haiku that I've seen before include "Epigrammatic verse" , "Japanese poem of seventeen syllables comprising three lines" , "Short Japanese poem" , "Japanese three-line verse form" , "Pithy lines" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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