Now Appearing in Daily Yomiuri
WHC is
proud to announce a new and important development
in the world haiku scene: The
first instalment of Susumu Takiguchi's new column on haiku in English with
The Daily Yomiuri is now online at
www.yomiuri.co.jp/main/main-e.htm
(Daily Yomiuri main index)
www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020419wob3.htm
(Go-Shichi-Go Haiku in English)
The Yomiuri Shimbun is the world's largest daily newspaper, its circulation
running into several million people. The Daily Yomiuri, read around the world,
is its English language version.
"Go-Shichi-Go Haiku in English" is the first series of its kind,
especially in terms of its educational purposes. Published monthly, the column
appears both in printed newspaper form and on the Internet. The column is aimed
mainly, but not exclusively, at Japanese haijin (haiku poets) who wish to learn
the basics of how to write haiku in English.
Mr. Takiguchi is the Founder and Chairman of the World Haiku Club (WHC),
established in 1998, and the World Haiku Festival (WHF). He is the Managing
Editor of World Haiku Review, the WHC's magazine. WHC Eigohaiku (Haiku in
English), his internet lessons for teaching the Japanese, step-by-step, how
to write haiku, especially English-language haiku, is a long-term project
arranged by Mitsugu Abe, WHC Policy Advisor and Susumu Takiguchi in association
with premier educational publishers in Japan. Eigohaiku may be found at
www.alc.co.jp/com/eigohaiku/index.html
In addition, WHC provides a mailing list for mentored guidance to Japanese haiku
poets writing English-language haiku, WHCbeginnersjapan :
groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCbeginnersjapan/
20 April 2000
