Advance Preparation: Instructors will need to collect 30 haiku that will interest their students. I have attached a few poems at the end of the lesson. This lesson would work well with Japanese poet ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of ...

She noted “the summer ... 1689, haiku master Matsuo Basho traveled by boat up the Sumida river in Tokyo. Disembarking at Senju, he began a five-month, 2,400-kilometer journey around Japan.

Haiku poetry. Remember learning about those three-line poems at school, clapped out to ensure they contain a 5-7-5 syllable combo? The city of Matsuyama, a 1.5-hour flight from Tokyo in Japan’s ...

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather it is the deep breath of life.” — Santoka Taneda It’s National Haiku ...