Friday, 11 July 2025

My Haiku Teacher, SAEKI Shoichi 2012

 

My Haiku Teacher, SAEKI Shoichi 

TANAKA Akio 

Tokyo 4 July 2012  Revised 11 July 2025
                                
Haiku is the traditional Japanese literature since the Meiji Period some 140 years ago, the ancestor of which was called Haikai that was began in the Muromachi Period some 500 years ago.
I have made Haiku since age 20s. My Haiku's teacher is SAEKI Shoichi, one of the modern Haiku writers in Japan. SAEKI's spiritual teacher is probably ISHIDA Hakyo, famous Haiku writer in the Showa Period. Thus the tradition of the literature has been proceeded in Japan.
One of my youth age's Haiku ( at Tokyo, February 1970) is the following.

パンタグラフ冷たい隙間で発光す

Pantograph
At the coldest clink
Radiates light for me



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