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Haiku evolved from the haikai, linked verse, that was written in the Tokugawa period. Every haikai begins with an opening verse of seventeen syllables. This opening verse was called a hokku. The links to a series of brief pages with introductory mate ...
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/asiasite/topics/index.html?topic=Haiku+sub...
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- The WHC World Kigo Database
This weblog represents an attempt to build a comprehensive database of words and phrases that might serve as season words in global haiku. It includes sections for Alaska, Hawaii, Romania, and Kenya, among other places, and the ongoing discussion of ...
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
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- The Butterfly Dreams
This album presents several pages from the electronic book Butterfly Dreams: The Seasons through Haiku and Photographs. About thirty classic and modern Japanese haiku in translations by William J. Higginson, together with nature photographs by Michae ...
http://fhp.2hweb.net/scrapbook_bd/index.html
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- The Mushimegane
The word Mushimegane means loupe in Japanese. We deliver our pieces and criticisms of haiku, tanka, literature, contemporary art, etc. Literary magazine Mushimegane was first published in September 1987 in Kobe, Japan. From the No.5, we issued it in ...
http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/enginx.shtml
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- Dhugal J Lindsays Haiku
A haiku is a short poem of form in Japanese 5,7,5 syllables. It normally includes a seasonal reference and often conveys something deeper behind the superficial words. Haiku should ideally use simple words and describe experiences common to most read ...
http://www.cyberoz.net/city/dhugal/haikuhome.html
| | - The Contemporary Haiku
Most Americans have heard of haiku, if ever, during their elementary school years, when they were introduced to a short nature poem with arcane rules of construction. Perhaps they later happened across examples of Japanese haiku, or the ubiquitous hu ...
http://webdelsol.com/Perihelion/acmarticle.htm
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- The Millikin University Haiku
The Millikin University Haiku web site hosts haiku projects, research and publications for students, faculty and the haiku community. ...
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/
| | - The Haikutalk Links Page
Our links to the haiku world in English by Gerald England. In addition to the useful links to many different haiku web sites, there is a link to his Art of Haiku web pages, a useful compendium of haiku and related information, commentary. ...
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/hk/hklinks.htm
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- Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words
The five hundred traditional Japanese season words with authoritative English translations, seasonally organized, for the benefit of haiku and linked poem poets and translators of traditional Japanese poetry. Selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto, translated ...
http://renku.home.att.net/500ESWd.html
| | - The Tanka Sijo Cupboard
Tanka is a short form of Japanese poetry. It is a mood poem written in five lines that incorporates natural images and human emotions. It is traditionally written in 31 syllables of 5,7,5,7,7. Modern writing of tanka varies in both syllables per line ...
http://neca.tripod.com/Tanka-Sijo.htm
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Haiku and Related Forms Associations
