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Haiku (俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [1] that include a kireji, or "cutting word"; [2] and a kigo, or seasonal reference.
Mitsuhashi Takajo was born near Narita. She was an admirer of Akiko Yosano and her father wrote tanka.In 1922 she married Kenzō (東 謙三), a dentist who wrote haiku and that influenced her to switch to haiku herself.
Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 (1763–1828), poet and Buddhist priest known for his haiku and haibun; widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki Kodai no Kimi 小大君, also "Ōkimi" (dates unknown), middle Heian-period Waka poet and noble; one of five women among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals ...
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 ]
Edition of the Kokin Wakashū anthology of classic Japanese poetry with wood-carved cover, 18th century. Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ryūka from the Okinawa ...
Comparing Kikaku's paired haiku in 'The Rustic Haiku Contest', Bashō remarked of one that "these are artifices within a work of art; too much craft has been expended here". [6] One day, Kikaku composed a haiku, Red dragonfly / break off its wings / Sour cherry. which Bashō changed to, Sour cherry / add wings to it / Red dragonfly;
Kumulipo by Keaulumoku (1700), an Ancient Hawaiian cosmogonic genealogy first published in 1889; Telemachus by Anna Seward (epic re-telling of François Fénelon's Les Aventures de Télémaque) Henriade by Voltaire (1723) Utendi wa Tambuka by Bwana Mwengo (1728) Der Messias by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1748–1773) La Pucelle d'Orléans by ...
The Seashell Game (貝おほひ, Kai Ōi) is a 1672 anthology compiled by Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, in which each haiku is followed by critical commentary he made as referee for a haiku contest. [1] It is Bashō's earliest known book, and the only book he published in his own name.