The 5-7-5 form refers to the number of beats in each section. For example, Bashō’s famous haiku begins furu ike ya, which could be represented musically as five notes: ♩♩♩♩♩. However, haiku are not ...
Kai Falkman, author of "A String Untouched, Dag Hammarskjold's life in haiku and photographs," speaks ahead of a library talk at United Nations University in Tokyo, on Nov. 8, 2016. (Mainichi) The art ...
Buson (1716-83): Translated and commented on by Isamu Hashimoto The peony ("botan" in Japanese) is the most beautiful garden plant, suitably named "queen" of a hundred flowers. Its representative ...