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3 unusual facts about Harold Gould Henderson


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.

Harold Gould Henderson

He participated in the process of drafting the Humanity Declaration in which the Emperor renounced his personal divinity.

Along with Reginald Horace Blyth, he served as a liaison between General MacArthur and Japan’s Imperial household.



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