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Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶, June 15, 1763 – January 5, 1828) [1] was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū.He is known for his haiku poems and journals.
Jim Kacian in Kumamoto, Japan, in mid-September 2007, while reading his haiku for a film in development by Slovenian filmmaker Dimitar Anakiev.. James Michael Kacian (born July 26, 1953) [1] is an American haiku poet, editor, translator, publisher, organizer, filmmaker, public speaker, and theorist.
Haiku originated as an opening part of a larger Japanese genre of poetry called renga. These haiku written as an opening stanza were known as hokku and over time they began to be written as stand-alone poems. Haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century. [4]
Tagami Kikusha (田上菊舎, 3 Nov 1753–23 Aug 1826 [ Hōreki 3.10.14 – Bunsei 9.8.23]) was a Japanese Early Modern literata (bunjin). Best known for her haiku poetry, she also wrote verse in Chinese, and was accomplished in the tea ceremony, koto, and ink painting.
Book of Haikus is a collection of haiku poetry by Jack Kerouac. It was first published in 2003 and edited by Regina Weinreich. It was first published in 2003 and edited by Regina Weinreich. It consists of some 500 poems selected from a corpus of nearly 1,000 haiku jotted down by Kerouac in small notebooks.
Ozaki Hōsai (尾崎 放哉, 20 January 1885 – 7 April 1926) was the haigo (haikai pen name) of Ozaki Hideo, a Japanese poet of the late Meiji and Taishō periods of Japan.An alcoholic, Ozaki witnessed the birth of the modern free verse haiku movement.
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.
Paul Reps (September 15, 1895 – July 12, 1990) was an American artist, poet, and author. He is best known for his unorthodox haiku-inspired poetry that was published from 1939 onwards.