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6 unusual facts about Haiku


Gania Nishimura

He studied Haiku under Seison Yamaguchi, engaged as a chief editor of Haiku Group called "Genseirin" and a leader of Haiku Group called Hototogisu in the University of Tokyo.

Haiku

The President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy is a notable haijin and known as "Haiku Herman".

Haiku subsequently had a considerable influence on Imagists in the 1910s, notably Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" of 1913, but, notwithstanding several efforts by Yone Noguchi to explain "the hokku spirit," there was as yet little understanding of the form and its history.

Masayuki Kawamura

He liked Waka (poetry), Haiku, Japanese calligraphy and drawing pictures and enjoyed waka and haiku with patients.

Zach Scott

Zacharias "Zach" Scott (born July 2, 1980 in Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer.

Zen Ties

Stillwater also receives a visit from his young nephew Koo, who speaks in Haiku.


1868 in poetry

January 10 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro 尾崎 徳太郎 (died 1903), novelist, essayist and haiku poet (surname: Ozaki)

Ana Rosa Núñez

She wrote a book of haiku in Spanish, Escamas del Caribe: Haikus de Cuba (1971), translated the work of American haiku authority Harold G. Henderson, and sent her haiku to the Emperor Hirohito on his birthday.

Atmen gibt das Leben

The German, English, and French text for the remainder incorporates six quotations: three haiku (by Shiki, Buson, and Issa), and one passage each from Socrates, the Gospel according to St. Thomas, and Meister Eckhart (Stockhausen 1979).

Beezer

Beezer (computing), an archiving tool for BeOS and Haiku operating systems, see List of BeOS programs

Bruce Ross

Ross's original English language haiku, senryū, haibun, tanka, haiga, and collaborative renku have appeared in international haiku journals, as have his reviews and articles.

Ross lives with his wife Astrid, a physician and English language haiku poet, in Hampden, Maine.

Cor van den Heuvel

Cor Van den Heuvel (born March 6, 1931) is an American haiku poet, editor and archivist.

Ego integrity

In his late haiku, 'we see Issa the old man - hundreds of years, thousands of years old, the Old Man of Edward Lear. That is our fate too. We have to die, to become nothing, in order to know the meaning of something'.

Finchley Children's Music Group

In 2008/2009 FCMG celebrated its 50th Anniversary and this celebration was marked by further commissions: Two song cycles for children’s choir from composers John Pickard (Songs of Rain and Sea with text by Sigrún Davídsdóttir) and James Weeks (Hototogisu, a setting of 17 Haiku written by the great Japanese post Basho).

Fukuda Chiyo-ni

The American rock band Red House Painters adapted one of Chiyo's haiku for the chorus of their song "Dragonflies".

Germán Arciniegas

He collaborated with many well-known figures at all three periodicals, including Luis López de Mesa, José Vasconcelos, León de Greiff and José Juan Tablada, who introduced the haiku into Spanish literature via Universidad.

Haiku D'Etat

Haiku D'Etat is a super group rap trio created by drummer and producer Adrian Burley; co-members are Aceyalone and Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship and Abstract Rude of Abstract Tribe Unique.

Haiku in English

Hiroaki Sato translated Japanese haiku into one line in English;

Haiku in languages other than Japanese

Haiku have found a foothold in German poetry since the 1920s, with examples from Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Blei, Yvan Goll, Peter Altenberg, Alfred Mombert and Arno Holz among others being cited.

Heisuke Hironaka

He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from Kobayashi Issa, a famous Japanese haiku poet.

Jim Kacian

"Dag Hammarskjöld: Haiku Poet and Photographer" (New York, New York, January 2006 — book release of A String Untouched).

Kernel-based Virtual Machine

A wide variety of guest operating systems work with KVM, including many flavours of Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Haiku, ReactOS, Plan 9, and AROS Research Operating System.

Last Days of Issa's Father

Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828), one of the four great haiku masters of Japan, along with Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson and Masaoka Shiki, described the last days of his father in his diary, beginning when his father suddenly developed fever and became seriously ill and continuing until a week after his demise.

Lætitia Sadier

She sang lead vocals on "Haiku One" from Sigmatropic's 2004 album Sixteen Haiku & Other Stories which was an album based on the poetry of Greek poet Giorgos Seferis.

Lee Gurga

Lee Gurga (born July 28, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an award-winning American haiku poet.

He first became interested in haiku during his high school years after reading a haiku translation book by Reginald Horace Blyth.

Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards

The Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Award is awarded to people who have made the most remarkable contribution to the development and the raising awareness of the creativity of haiku regardless of nationality or language.

Mutsuo Takahashi

Although Takahashi has been most visibly active in the realm of free verse poetry, he has also written traditional Japanese verse (both tanka and haiku poetry), novels, and Kyōgen plays, reworkings of ancient Greek dramas and epic poetry, many works of literary criticism, and a libretto for an opera by the contemporary Japanese composer Akira Miyoshi.

Naruko, Miyagi

Haiku poet Matsuo Bashō passed through the area on the trip that became his masterwork Oku no Hosomichi.

Nick Virgilio

Virgilio was a long-standing member of the Haiku Society of America and was the co-director of the First International Haiku Festival, held in 1971 in Philadelphia.

He died on January 3, 1989, of a heart attack while taping an interview about haiku for the CBS News Nightwatch television program.

Ōgaki, Gifu

Ōgaki was the final destination for the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō on one of his long journeys as recounted in his book Oku no Hosomichi.

Peter Josyph

As a writer of fiction, his ongoing projects are a series of novels and short stories in which the narrator is French painter Henri Matisse, and the Haiku Quintet, a series of semi-autobiographical haiku novels written entirely in verses of 17 syllables.

Poetic diction

In Japanese poetry, the rules for writing traditional haiku require that each poem include a reference to a specific season.

Scifaiku

Terry Pratchett included the following SF haiku as a chapter epigram in his early non-Discworld novel, The Dark Side of the Sun (1976).

Sonia Sanchez

Sanchez is also known for her innovative melding of musical formats—like the blues—and traditional poetic formats like haiku and tanka.

Vanna Bonta

In 2013, a haiku by Vanna Bonta was among top three selections to be launched to the planet Mars on a NASA spaceship for the MAVEN mission.

Violet Kazue de Cristoforo

Her haiku reflected the time that she and her family spent in detention in Japanese internment camps during World War II.


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