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Download as PDF; Printable version ... or by modern writers of Japanese free-form haiku ... book on haiku theory in 1970, titled Japanese Poetry and its Cultural and ...
Yasuda's best known book is The Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples (1957). His other books include A Pepper-pod: Classic Japanese Poems Together with Original Haiku, a collection of haiku and translations in English; Masterworks of the Noh Theater; A Lacquer Box, translation of waka and a translation of Minase Sangin Hyakuin, a ...
1.1 Poems. 2 References. ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... was a Japanese poet who wrote haiku. Biography. Kijo was born in 1865 in Edo, Japan. He studied law but ...
Kagami Shikō (各務 支考, 1665 – 14 March 1731), often known by the mononym Shikō, was a Japanese haiku poet of the early Edo period, known as one of Matsuo Bashō's Ten Eminent Disciples (蕉門十鉄, Shōmon juttetsu) [2] and the originator of the Shishimon school (or Mino school) of poetry. [1]
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.
This woodcut by Utagawa Kuniyoshi illustrates her most famous haiku: finding a bucket entangled in the vines of a morning glory, she will go ask for water rather than disturb the flower. Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田 千代尼, 1703 - 2 October 1775) or Kaga no Chiyo (加賀 千代女) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period and a Buddhist nun. [1]
The following poem is a typical example of Santōka's work: What, even my straw hat has started leaking 笠も漏り出したか kasa mo moridashita ka. This poem exhibits two major features of free verse haiku: It is a single utterance that cannot be subdivided into a 5-7-5 syllable structure, and; It does not contain a season word.
Ogiwawa was a strong proponent of abandoning haiku traditions, especially the "season words" so favored by Takahama Kyoshi, and even the 5-7-5 syllable norms. In his Haiku teisho (1917), he broke with Hekigoto and shocked the haiku world by advocating further that haiku be transformed into free verse.