Once I got into it, it was like mastering haiku. The format is challenging, but fun. And to see these scenes come together with actors voicing the dialogue and full animation and special effects was a real treat.
Quotes about haiku (12 Quotes)
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.
Regarding R. H. Blyth The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things.... When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.
Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
Besides passengers and cargo, we transfer Japanese culture, including 'haiku,' traditional Japanese short poetry. We hold a haiku contest for children around the world, and invite some of them on a one-week haiku journey.
Regarding R. H. Blyth Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time 1950's because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.
Regarding R. H. Blyth Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth....
Japanese haiku poets found something morose in the sound, an omen of the cicada's short adult life. In the cicada's cry, ... no sign can foretell how soon it must die.