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DECEMBER AND YULETIDE
December will soon begin, and with it comes the holiday season. How does one deal with holidays in hokku? The same way one deals with a season. A holiday verse is like a miniature seasonal verse … more →
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DECEMBER AND YULETIDE
hokku wrote 1 day ago: December will soon begin, and with it comes the holiday season. How does one deal with holidays in h … more →
BLOWING LEAVES
hokku wrote 5 days ago: A hokku appropriate to late autumn, by the woman Sono-jo: A dog barking At the sound of the leaves; … more →
NO DIVIDED ATTENTION
hokku wrote 5 days ago: I have to confess that years of involvement with hokku have made me very leery of metaphor and simil … more →
HOKKU TO MAKE YOU COLD
hokku wrote 5 days ago: An old winter hokku by Sōgi, who lived long before Bashō: In the freezing night, The ceaseless flapp … more →
THE FARTHER ONE TRAVELS THE LESS ONE KNOWS
hokku wrote 1 week ago: On setting out on a journey, Bashō wrote: Tabibito to waga na yobaren hatsushigure Traveler to m … more →
ENTERPRISES THAT REQUIRE NEW CLOTHES
hokku wrote 1 week ago: The almost frantic desire of contemporary society to drop whatever is perceived as no longer fashion … more →
LEARNING THROUGH TRANSLATION PROGRAMS
hokku wrote 1 week ago: I see that some people read my site in Italian, in Spanish, in Czech, Russian, and other languages b … more →
THE HOKKU OF WINTER
hokku wrote 1 week ago: Winter is at the door. In some places it has already come. So it is time to begin considering what … more →
AUTUMN COMINGS AND GOINGS
hokku wrote 2 weeks ago: Gyōdai wrote: Aki no yama tokorodokoro ni kemuri tatsu Autumn’s mountains here-there at … more →
WHAT COMES FROM THE READER
hokku wrote 2 weeks ago: There are some hokku difficult for young people to understand — difficult not because of compl … more →
FOG AND THINKING
hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: Perhaps you remember my “Fall” hokku: The river – It flows out of and into The fog … more →
DESCENDING GEESE, FALLING LEAVES
hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: Some Japanese hokku seem to defy translation into English, even though their meaning is not difficul … more →
LEARNING FROM OLD HOKKU
hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: Every good hokku is simultaneously a pleasure and a lesson. We enjoy the experience of it, but we c … more →
WHITE DEW
hokku wrote 4 weeks ago: Having spent enough time talking about why hokku is not the same as haiku (and why haiku is not hokk … more →
SPILLING THE MOON
hokku wrote 4 weeks ago: In the previous posting I mentioned that many of Shiki’s “haiku” would still be cl … more →
WHAT DID SHIKI REALLY DO?
hokku wrote 4 weeks ago: In previous postings I have written that the haiku did not exist until near the end of the 19th cent … more →
CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND PERSIMMONS
hokku wrote 1 month ago: Several times a week, I pass a public stairwell with a big flower arrangement on the landing. This … more →
FALLING LEAVES
hokku wrote 1 month ago: In old hokku, falling and fallen leaves are generally a winter subject. But where I live, as well a … more →
LEARNING FROM SCARECROWS
hokku wrote 1 month ago: What is most important in hokku is understanding its aesthetics, which are generally quite different … more →
