Haiku: Animals
Haiku: Animals This second volume of haiku focusing on the animal kingdom takes you on a journey through a single day with a variety of animal companions. The haiku form is a perfect way of capturing…
Specifikacia Haiku: Animals
Haiku: Animals
This second volume of haiku focusing on the animal kingdom takes you on a journey through a single day with a variety of animal companions. The haiku form is a perfect way of capturing a moment of experience or a fleeting impression, and in this book, the impressions are strengthened and extended by the illustrations. The book will reproduce works by the great 17th and 18th century poets such as Bash, Buson and Issa, as well as later works by contemporary writers and novelists.
The fact that this sophisticated artist chose insects for one of his most luxurious woodblock printed albums underlines the Japanese appreciation of even the most diminutive of animals, which is shown repeatedly, too, in the haiku: even fleas can be the subject of an affectionate poem. Special is made of Utamaros exquisite Ehon mushi erabi (A Selection of Insects). Elsewhere in the animal kingdom, horses, dogs,