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WORLD HAIKU KUKAI: SECOND MEETING

 

GENERAL COMMENT OF THE KUKAI

Haiku is a form of "kidai" (season themes) poetry and therefore the crucial point is how one develops one's idea based on "kidai"for one's haiku to be successful. The haiku which I have chosen for "tokusen" (poems of special merit) demonstrate "newness" in one way or another. I look forward to receiving more haiku which demonstrate individuality.

 
Takashi Hoshino

(Hoshino is surname)

 

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I am pleased to announce the results of 10 selections by Takashi for the Second HoshinoTakashi Kukai. Congratulations to those winners on their fine works, and many thanks to many other poets who have participated in this Kukai.

Kengin,

Susumu

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The Results of the Second Takashi Kukai (Best 10 in no particular order)

1

two blue tits play -
in the darkening eye of dusk
flashes of yellow

Kevin Ryan (UK)

haru no yami aogara niwa no ki tobi-kau

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2

winter wind
a faded kite flutters
on the power line

soji (USA)

densen no tako hatameku ya fuyu no kaze

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3

godless month --
the weathervane turns slowly
to the north

MaryJane Turner (USA)

kazami-dori kita wo sasu nari kan-na-zuki

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4

purple red
that first ginger shoot
out of the earth

Debra Woolard Bender (USA)

shohga no me tsuchi wo hogushite koh izur

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5

full moon obscured -
darker still the way
beneath the trees

Kevin Ryan (UK)

mangetsu ya kagerite koshita nao kurashi

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6

moon out --
between the packmule's ears
our path leads home

an’ya (USA)

raba wo kari ieji tadoreba tsukiyo kana

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7

cloudy day
rows of mushrooms sprout
in the rain-soaked lawn

Victor Gendrano (USA)

ugo no shiba issei ni deru kinoko kana

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8

Sunday morning
the sounds of a distant bell
and cricket songs

soji (USA)

tohgane to chichiro kiku asa nichiyohbi

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9

leaf rake
leant against that wall
since winter

Debra Woolard Bender (USA)

onaji kabe tate-kake-rareshi kumade kana

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10

winter deepens --
only paper flowers adorn
Grandfather's grave

MaryJane Turner (USA)

fuyu fukami kami no hana nomi sofu no haka  

 

 

Read: A Message from Hoshino Takashi, Vol. 1, Issue 1, May 2001
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WHCtakashi is an important mailing list of the World Haiku Club, where non-Japanese-language haiku poets from around the world are given a rare privilege to benefit directly from personal teaching by a leading Japanese haiku master. Hoshino Takashi (b. 1952 -) is a great grand son of Takahama Kyoshi (1874-1959), who was a father of modern haiku and the founder of the all-powerful orthodox Hototogisu School. Initially, Takashi was taught haiku by his grand-mother, Tatsuko, who was the second daughter of Kyoshi and Tsubaki's mother. Now, as a very popular and respected master himself, Takashi teaches extensively up and down Japan but he also wishes to share the joy of authentic haiku with many haiku-loving poets across the world through the World Haiku Club. The main feature of WHCtakashi is Takashi's special kukai where out of all the haiku poems in English submitted by haijin from around the world, he will select the best ten and give them his personal comments. (The original poems will be translated into Japanese and his comments in Japanese will be translated back into English) As a result, these lucky ten non-Japanese poets will have their haiku in English shown to the Japanese people in Japanese translation together with the original version in English, while at the same time the same poems will be celebrated on WHCtakashi list with Romanised Japanese translation and Takashi's comments in English translation). The winning haiku with Takashi's commentary will be published each quarter in WHC's World Haiku Review. Also, Takashi's own haiku will be introduced in English translation from time to time. Time permitting, Takashi's teachings could be translated into English.

~ Susumu Takiguchi

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