Just as a botanical garden is a place for the display of your favorite plants, this garden is an area that I have set aside for the display and enjoyment of my favorite form of poetry…hokku. This garden contains verses from the ancient Japanese poets as well as modern writers. Since each hokku has an image associated with it, we call this combination a haiga. Most of the images are photos, and some are paintings.
This collection includes verses from the classic writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Bashō , Buson, Onitsura, and Issa. Also, included in this collection are a handful of modern writers, such as Coomler (who teaches the art of writing hokku), Ashley, Ferrell, Shimono, and Bennett.
Each page has one haiga, a hokku verse, with an image relating to the hokku. The name of the author is below the verse.
Hope you enjoy this simple, yet, beautiful form of expression that is called haiga! Click here to learn the meaning of hokku and some general information, which is different from the more modern haiku.
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