paperweights
on the store’s comicbooks –
spring breeze

The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson’s most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson’s haikai group.

haiku by Takai Kito

picture by freestocks

Weighing Paper [naviarhaiku587 - paperweights]

rising sun
and nothing else –
misty sea!

Inoue Shiro (1742-1812) was a doctor and poet from Nagoya.

haiku by Inoue Shiro

picture by Vlad Kostiuk

Sunrising [naviarhaiku589 - rising sun]

almost black
deepening purple
ripe grapes

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki

Picture by Hassan Anayi

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