Tuesday, 17 September 2019

My Haiku Teacher, SAEKI Shoichi

My Haiku Teacher, SAEKI Shoichi 

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 spiritual teacher is probably ISHIDA Hakyo, famous Haiku writer in the Showa Period. Thus the tradition of the literature has proceeded in 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
Pantagurafu
Tsumetai sukima de
Hakkousu

Pantograph
At the coldest clink
Radiates light for me


Tokyo
4 July 2012



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