Thursday 1 March 2018

Initiation of Haiku

Initiation of Haiku 

TANAKA Akio 





               
                         
Haiku is the traditional Japanese literature since the Meiji Period some 140 years ago, the ancestor of which was called Haikai that was began in the Muromachi Period some 500 years ago.
I have made Haiku since age 20s. My Haiku's teacher is SAEKI Shoichi, one of the modern Haiku writers in Japan. SAEKI's teacher is probably ISHIDA Hakyo, famous Haiku writer in the Showa Period. Thus the tradition of the literature has proceeded in the of Japan.
One of my youth age's Haiku ( at Tokyo, February 1970) is the following.


パンタグラフ冷たい隙間で発光す

Pantograph
At the coldest clink
Radiates light for me

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