Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems Frida a practicing physician

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and in our own understanding of identity

and—perhaps best of all—an utter treat for anyone who simply revels in language

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Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems Frida a practicing physicianTranslated by Hart Larrabee Haiku Illustrated features 90 classic poems from four poets Matsuo Bash, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki which range across more than 200 years of Japanese poetry. There are few rules to haiku, but they are strict: 17 phonetic sounds, a sense of cutting images or ideas, and a reference to a season. From those restrictions, poets have written about many things, from the years first blossom to aging, from