Miss Masuda Aika (桝田愛佳）began painting haiga in her elementary school days.
In summer, 2008, her mother, Ms. Masuda Junko (桝田純子), and David Ferron, an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) in Akita City, Akita, Japan, took up haiga by Masuda Aika as their haiga project.
We posted their haiga project on the website, dividing it into three stages in November, 2009.
We are very pleased that you appreciated haiga by an elementary schoolgirl in Akita.
Miss Masuda Aika（桝田愛佳）, is now a freshman at Seirei Senior High School in Akita, and contributed her haiga to our website again recently.
Her mother, Ms. Masuda Junko (桝田純子) wrote haiku and translated them into English.
We hope that you will enjoy their haiga and haiku on our website again.
Winter : in the Sixth Grade
Dear Santa Claus,
this is my wish:
You could realize everyone’s dreams
by Aika
Happy New Year!
with my idol
in my arms
by Aika
On graduation
walking with light steps
full of hope
by Aika
Young leaves open ―
Singing lessons begin
for graduation
by Junko
In her first year : Sotoasahikawa Junior High School
Freshman ceremony
brightly shining
the unifrom’s white lines
by Suiho (Haiga teacher)
Early in the morning
parents picked warabi
boiled green
warabi = bracken
by Junko
“I’m home”
my son played with the sun
as he liked
by Junko
Big fireworks
disappeaed instant
into the heavens
by Junko
The fall wind
breezes in celebration
my birthday
by Junko
In the blue sky
red leaves are flying
colorful
by Atsushi (Aika’s father)
Happy New Year
2007
by Aika
Happy New Year
by Aika
“Demons out! Good luck in!”
by Aika
― Hidenori Hiruta
Akita International Haiku Network 
delightful collection hiruta san
I really enjoyed these haiga! As I was an actual Santa Claus at a shopping mall as background experience for my children’s novel I particularly liked your Santa haiga. 😉
Alan
http://area17.blogspot.com
I’m looking forward to even more haiga!
Alan
I love it when you post these. Such simple expressions of color and life. Thank-you!
All the haiga kept me in immense poetic ambience.I enjoyed these poems and felt roaming in tiny beautiful villages of Japan.Thank you Mr Hiruta for your poetic endurance.
With Warm regards
P K Padhy, India
I like them all, my favored
…walking with light steps…
Looking forward to the next presentation! _m
They are beautiful, each and every one. I do have a small preference for the sakura/graduation piece. I enjoyed your pheasant haiku on your site too. Thank you for sharing these.
The haiga were delightful. It is good to see the fine minimalistic imagery. The poems I will read again in order to learn more about Japanese. Thank you.