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Tag Archives: Shôhaku
AUTUMN COMINGS AND GOINGS
Gyōdai wrote: Aki no yama tokorodokoro ni kemuri tatsu Autumn’s mountains here-there at smoke rises The autumn hills; Here and there Smoke rises. It is a pleasant verse, and reminds one of Appalachia, of seeing smoke … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, Buson, Gyôdai, haikai, haiku, harmony, hokku, nature, poetry, seasons, Shôhaku, spirituality, transience, writing, zen
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LEARNING FROM SCARECROWS
What is most important in hokku is understanding its aesthetics, which are generally quite different from those of English-language poetry. If one understands the aesthetics and knows the basics of form and punctuation in English, a really perceptive reader could … Continue reading
