This collection of Japanese haiku profiles noted poet Kenneth Yasuda and is a welcome addition to the world of haiku. In the compact, evocative verse-form known as haiku Japanese writers have for centuries been condensing their finest poetic thought and feeling. Adequate translation of haiku into English awaited a Japanese writer fully acquainted with the English language. That writer has now appeared in Kenneth Yasuda, and this book is the result...

A collection of haiku, a traditional seventeen-syllable form of Japanese verse. Includes original Japanese calligraphy, the transliterated versions, the English translations, and brush and line illustrations.