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A haiku in English is an English-language poem written in a form or style inspired by Japanese haiku.Like their Japanese counterpart, haiku in English are typically short poems and often reference the seasons, but the degree to which haiku in English implement specific elements of Japanese haiku, such as the arranging of 17 phonetic units (either syllables or the Japanese on) in a 5–7–5 ...
The Lake Washington School District #414 or LWSD is a public school district in King County, Washington, in suburbs east of Seattle. Its headquarters is in Redmond . As of 2020 [update] it is the second-largest school district in Washington .
Harold Gould Henderson (1889–1974) was an American academic, art historian and Japanologist.He was a Columbia University professor for twenty years. From 1948 through 1952, he was the President of the Japan Society in New York, [1] and in 1968 he cofounded the Haiku Society of America.
Traditionally, haiku contain a kireji, or cutting word, usually placed at the end of one of the poem's three sections, and a kigo, or season-word. [134] The most famous exponent of the haiku was Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694). An example of his writing: [135] 富士の風や扇にのせて江戸土産 fuji no kaze ya oogi ni nosete Edo miyage
A saijiki (歳時記, lit. "year-time chronicle") is a list of Japanese kigo (seasonal terms) used in haiku and related forms of poetry. An entry in a saijiki usually includes a description of the kigo itself, as well as a list of similar or related words, and some examples of haiku that include that kigo. [1]
Lake Washington's team name was the "Hornets" until 1935, when the class of that year decided to change the mascot to the Kangaroos. [9] The students at the time wrote a jingle involving a "rude phrase" referred to as the "horny hornets" and were punished by the district by having to choose a new mascot.
In 1949, with the publication in Japan of the first volume of Haiku, Blyth's four-volume work, haiku was introduced to the post-war Western world. His Haiku series (1949–52) was dealing mostly with pre-modern haiku, though included Masaoka Shiki; later followed his two-volume History of Haiku (1963–64).
In 1992 Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz published the volume Haiku in which he translated from English to Polish haiku of Japanese masters and American and Canadian contemporary haiku authors. The former president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, is a haiku writer and known as "Haiku Herman". [43] He published a book of haiku in ...