Akita International Haiku Network
Gray clouds trail across the sky. In the pale winter sun a flock of geese (Ben Grafström–Akita, Japan)
In August, 2000, I visited Edinburgh, Scotland, where I enjoyed Edinburgh Festival, and did the sights of the city, including the tour of Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh Festival Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for several simultaneous arts and cultural festivals that take place during August each year in Edinburgh, Scotland. These festivals are … Continue reading Scots haiku by John McDonald (Part 3)
On April 10,2010, Brian Birdsell(McSherry) sent me an e-mail, contributing a collection of short poems, which he has entitled “Fair Equinox” and divided into 4 seasonal sections. Attached it the “winter poems”. On May 18, 2010, he sent me the second e-mail, saying as follows: Thank you Mr. Hidenori Hiruta for your interest in … Continue reading Haiku by Brian McSherry in Iwate, Japan (Part 2)
First of all, I present you the following haiku I wrote when I visited 角館（かくのだて）(Kakunodate), Akita. Hyakusui’s monument stands in beauty cherry blossoms さくらばな百穂の碑を飾りけり Sakurabana Hyakusui no hi o kazari keri This is a monument inscribed with two tanka poems written by平福百穂（ひらふく ひゃくすい）(Hirafuku Hyakusui)(1877 - 1933), who was a Japanese-style painter … Continue reading Haiku by Hidenori Hiruta in Japan (2)
Professor Kirby Record teaches as director of English for Academic Purposes at Akita International University (AIU) (国際教養大学) in Akita. He also writes haiku. He is a fellow haiku poet of mine. Professor Kirby Record contributed his book of poetry titled ‘A Welcome Coolness’ to me. I post poetry in his book, dividing them … Continue reading Haiku by Kirby Record at AIU in Japan ( Part 4 )
On May 25, Vishnu P Kapoor contributed his haiku through his e-mail. He says in his e-mail: Dear Hiruta san, Thank you so much for your encouraging e-mail. Following are a few of my haiku thoughts for your kind perusal; i hope you enjoy them :- light of dawn- smoke rising from … Continue reading Haiku by Vishnu P Kapoor in India
On June 1, 2010, we received an e-mail from Richard Stevenson in Canada, whose subject is Haikai Submission to Akita International Haiku Network site. He says in his e-mail: Greetings from Southern Alberta! Thought I'd send along a few things. ( A bio note is included at the end): Bio Note Richard Stevenson lives … Continue reading Haiku by Richard Stevenson in Canada
On May 20, 2010, I received a comment on our website from Narayanan Raghunathan. He says in his comment as follows: Dear Hiruta-San: I humbly request you to visit our site http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/ Please translate Haiku which you like into Japanese. Please post your Haiku and translation on our site: It will surely get translated … Continue reading Haiku by Narayanan Raghunathan in India (1)
On May 18,2010, I received a comment on haiku by Roberta Beary for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival from Michael Dylan Welch as follows. Nice to see these translations of Roberta's poems from the book! Michael Since then we have been exchanging e-mails. First of all, I would like to introduce … Continue reading Haiku and the Japanese Garden by Michael Dylan Welch
On May 20, 2010, we received a comment on ‘Haiku by Aju Mukhopadhyay for Int’l Haiku Spring Festival 2010’ from Kala Ramesh in India. She said in her comment as follows: Hi Thorfinn Tait, I would like to share my published work with you. I do write haiku, tanka, haibun, senryu and renku. I … Continue reading Haiku by Kala Ramesh in India
Nobuko Johnson in Washington, USA, loves cherry blossoms and haiku. In March, 2010, she made a haiku trip to Kumamoto（熊本）, Kyushu, Japan and enjoyed the cherry blossom-viewing there. Nobuko Johnson kindly contributed haiku she wrote during her visit there. Some haiku are about the cherry blossoms in full boom shown in the following photo, … Continue reading Haiku by Nobuko Johnson
