Haiga
A while ago I came across “Haiga Illustrated Haiku Poems” on Amazon UK by Yukki Yaura and Suiyu Enomoto and bagged myself a good second-hand copy. I’ve only just had a chance to really have a proper look at it, and there are some lovely haiku.
I also really like the format of the book, haiku on one side, illustrated haiku on the other, it’s a nice size and you get the Japanese version of the poem in rōmaji.
It’s also broken into segments, Haiga; Preparations & Brushwork; Illustrated Classical Poems; Illustrated Contemporary Poems; Japan Suiboku Centre Students, so there should be something for everyone who likes Haiku
Here are some of my favourites:
If the cuckoo were a flower
I would pluck a voice from it
Hana naraba
hitokoe oran
hototogisu
Kodō
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Two young bamboos stand
holding the moon
between them
Waka take ya
tsuki wo hasande
nihon tatsu
Shi-ei
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The willow paints the wind
without using a brush
Fude nakute
kaze wo e ni kaku
yanagi kana
Saryū
-------
wild mushrooms
gills of an underworld
blunting november
No ni kinoko
yomi no kuni no ibuki
jūichigatsu nibushi
Sean Burn
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autumn morning -
a rain-soaked rose
sways in the breeze
aki no asa
kaze ni tawamu bara
ame agari
Kathering Gallagher
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I also really like the format of the book, haiku on one side, illustrated haiku on the other, it’s a nice size and you get the Japanese version of the poem in rōmaji.
It’s also broken into segments, Haiga; Preparations & Brushwork; Illustrated Classical Poems; Illustrated Contemporary Poems; Japan Suiboku Centre Students, so there should be something for everyone who likes Haiku
Here are some of my favourites:
If the cuckoo were a flower
I would pluck a voice from it
Hana naraba
hitokoe oran
hototogisu
Kodō
-------
Two young bamboos stand
holding the moon
between them
Waka take ya
tsuki wo hasande
nihon tatsu
Shi-ei
-------
The willow paints the wind
without using a brush
Fude nakute
kaze wo e ni kaku
yanagi kana
Saryū
-------
wild mushrooms
gills of an underworld
blunting november
No ni kinoko
yomi no kuni no ibuki
jūichigatsu nibushi
Sean Burn
-------
autumn morning -
a rain-soaked rose
sways in the breeze
aki no asa
kaze ni tawamu bara
ame agari
Kathering Gallagher
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