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Uejima Onitsura. Uejima Onitsura (上島 鬼貫, April 1661 – 2 August 1738 [1]) was a Japanese haiku poet of the Edo period.Prominent in Osaka and belonging to the Danrin school of Japanese poetry, [2] Uejima is credited, along with other Edo period poets, of helping to define and exemplify Bashō's style of poetry.
The Haiku Handbook, The Haiku Seasons, Haiku World William J. Higginson (December 17, 1938 – October 11, 2008) was an American poet , translator and author most notable for his work with haiku and renku , born in New York City .
Hototogisu (ホトトギス, "lesser cuckoo") is a Japanese literary magazine focusing primarily on haiku. Founded in 1897, it was responsible for the spread of modern haiku among the Japanese public [1] and is now Japan's most prestigious and long-lived haiku periodical. [2]
Masaoka Shiki (正岡 子規, October 14, 1867 – September 19, 1902), pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡 升), [2] was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, [ 3 ] credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during his short life. [ 4 ]
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 8, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
Haiku by Unohu by Keith Allen Daniels, Anamnesis Press, April 2000, ISBN 1-892842-09-2 (because most of the poems are humorous, they could be best be described as science fiction senryū) Scifaikuest , a quarterly online and print short-form SFF poetry journal from Alban Lake Publishing (formerly Sam's Dot Publishing) ISSN 1558-9757
Kawahigashi succeeded Shiki as haiku editor of the magazine Hototogisu ("Cuckoo") in 1897 and the newspaper Nippon ("Japan") in 1902. After Shiki's death, Kawahigashi and Kyoshi became leaders of two factions of Shiki's followers, the latter more conservative and eventually the journal Hototogisu became centered on this aesthetic, while the ...
Ransetsu's poetry is low-keyed and austere, reflecting the sabi aspect of Bashō's writing, [3] but showing a real empathy with all living creatures. [4]A critical contemporary called him "a man of small calibre...he seems to have flowers, but has no fruit".