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Kyoshi
Santoka
Ryunosuke Akutagawa:
Green frog, is your body also freshly painted? - haiku by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Green frog, is your body also freshly painted? - haiku by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Buson:
"The bat / lives hidden / under the broken umbrella" - Buson
This haiku-comic was published in The Bulletin/Geppo: a journal of Japanese Canadian Community, History & Culture (June 2014)
The short night ;
A broom thrown away
On the beach.
- Buson (from: Haiku, R.H. Blyth, p. 675)
"walking on dishes / the rat's feet make the music / of shivering cold" Buson
Joso
Fallen leaves have sunk,
And lie on a rock,
Under the water
- Joso (From: Haiku, R.H. Blyth)
Kako
The fan-seller;
A load of wind he carries,-
Ah, the heat!
- Kako (From: Haiku, R.H. Blyth, p. 653)
Kikaku
Kikaku was one of Matsuo Basho's pupil. When Kikaku wrote this haiku:
A dragonfly
remove it swings...
a red pepper!
His master Basho thought the haiku was to cruel and replied with this version:
a red pepper,
add some wings,
a dragonfly.
First published in Frogpond, Haiku Society of America, 34:1, Winter 2011
Moritake
Onitsura
There is no place
to throw the used bath water.
Insect cries!
- Onitsura (From: An Introduction to Haiku, by Harold G. Henderson)
Shirao
"The beginning of autumn / decided / by the red dragonfly." - Shirao
This haiku-comic was published in The Bulletin/Geppo: a journal of Japanese Canadian Community, History & Culture (September 2013)
George Swede
"the day begins / descendants of dinosaurs / darting, singing" -- George Swede
Yaso
In the winter storm
The cat keeps on
Blinking its eyes
- Yaso (Haiku, ed. Peter Washington, tr. R.H. Blyth)
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