The Japanese Haiku
Masters
Links, References, Resources
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
Back Roads to Far Towns. Translated by Cid Corman
and Kamaike Susumu. 1986.
Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku With Commentary.
By Makoto Ueda.
Stanford University Press, 1992.
Basho and
Haikai. Mark Jewel. 38K. Commentary, links and
bibliography.
Basho and Kukai.
Article by Hideaki Hirano.
Basho and the Fox.
By Tim Myers. Illustrated by Oki. S. Han. New York, Marxhall Cavendish,
2000. 29 pages. Children's picture book.
Matsuo Basho and Zen Haiku 16K
Basho, A Story
Articles and information. The Gentlest and Greatest Friend of
Moon and Winds.
Basho Database
Japanese language resource.
Basho Issue, (sic)
Magazine #5
Basho - Links. Geometry.com Search. 185 Links.
108K.
Basho Ki 1998
Basho's Day is November 25th. Haiku featuring frogs.
Basho Matsuo.
By Ryu Yotsuya. 5K.
Basho's Biography
Includes some haiku and haibun by Basho.
Basho's Calligraphy - Examples
Basho's Haiku: Three
Interpretations. Contrasting translations by R. H. Blyth, Lucien Stryck,
and Beilenson.
Basho's Life. By T.
Stanley and R. Irving. 4K.
Basho's Life.
By Makoto Ueda. 39K.
Basho's Narrow Road
Translated by Hiroaki Sato. Stonebridge Press.
Basho's Narrow Road. Spring and
Autumn Passages. Includes the Renga Sequence A Farewell Gift
to Sora. Translated with detailed annotations by Hiroaki Sato. Foreward
by Cor van den Heuvel.
Berkeley, California, Stone Bridge Press, 1996. 186 pages.
Basho's World Maintained by
Stephen Kohl. Text of "Narrow Road to the Deep North."
Reginald Horace Blyth's Translations
The Essential Basho.
By Matsuo Basho. Translated by Sam Hamill. Shambhala Publications,
1999. 240 pages.
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson and
Issa. Edited with verse translations
by Robert Hass. Hopewell, New
Jersey, Ecco Press, 1994. Bibliography, 329 pages.
Fellow Traveler:
Themes in Basho's Oku no Hosomichi and the Works of Li Po.
By: Larry D.
Clark
Flower Shadows.
By Sogi (Gary). Sogi's haiku, good links, and notes on Basho in the Haiku Poet's Hut.
Grand Inspiritors:
Matsuo Basho. Good links and a short bibliography.
Haiku By R. H. Blyth. Tokyo, Hokuseido,
1949-1952. A landmark study in Four Volumes.
A Haiku Journey.
Matsuo Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province.
Translations by
Dorothy Britton. Photographs by Dennis Stock. Kodansha International, Revised
edition,
1980. 124 pages.
History of Haiku
By Ryu Yotsuya. Informative short essays on 10 famous Japanese Haiku
poets.
The Japanese Haiku Masters
Updated seasonally by Mark A. Bird.
Matsuo Basho
4K
Matsuo Basho: The
Master Haiku Poet. By Makoto Ueda. Tokyo, Kodansha
International,
1970. Reprint edition, 1983.
Mountain Water School of Haiku. This haiku school is led by David
Coomler. This school
is "rooted in the monumental work of R. H. Blyth, in the classic haiku of Japan,
and ultimately in the
Zen/Ch'an and Taoist-based poetry of old Japan and China." Hokku-Inn is the public forum,
a
general posting site for haiku and discussion among intermediate level school members.
Refer
also to Hokku-Way, a
collection of over 260 notes and short essays about writing haiku by
David Coomler. Mountain-Water is for deeper discussion of haiku-related matters
among
selected long-time and committed students. Quiet-Pond is for selected
advanced students
who might from time to time prefer student-teacher interaction only.
Oku no Hosomichi.
Text of Narrow Road to the North in Japanese.
On Love and
Barley. Haiku of Basho. Translated by Lucien
Stryk. Ingram Book Company,
1986. 92 pages.
Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Matsuo Basho. Translated by Tim Chilcott.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches.
Translated by
Nobuyuki Yuasa. 1966.
Narrow Road to the Deep North
Maintained by Stephen Kohl. A huge website.
Translations by
Dorothy Britton, Cid Corman, Helen Craig McMullough, Earl Miner and others.
Traces of Dreams:
Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho.
By Haruo Shirane. Palo Alto, California, Stanford University Press,
1998.
294 pages. Excellent!!
Zen Poetry. Extensive links
and bibliography, a large collection of selected quotes, notes,
special studies, and webpages on noted Zen poetry scholars and translators, e.g., R. H.
Blyth,
Lucien Stryk, etc.. 310K+ By Mike Garofalo.
Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter.
Translated by Lucien Stryk and Takahashi Ikemoto.
Grove Press, 1995. 124 pages.
A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen.
By Robert Aitken. Weatherhill, Inc.,
1979. 192 pages.
Yosa Buson (Saicho) (1716-1783)
Articles on Buson and Sekkasha Collection. By Hiroo Saga. In Japanese; being translated into English.
Buson's Biography
Includes selected haiku by Buson.
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson and
Issa. Edited with verse translations by
Robert Hass. Hopewell, New Jersey, Ecco Press, 1994. Bibliography, 329 pages.
Haiku Master Buson. By Yuki Sawa and Edith M. Shiffert.
South San Francisco, California,
Heian International, 1978.
History of Haiku: Buson
Yosa. By Ryu Yotsuya.
An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki.
By Harold G. Henderson. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co., Inc.,
1958. 179 pages.
A very influential early work, based on his small book on haiku called Bamboo
Broom published
in 1933. The authors selected include: Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and others.
Many of the
translations into three line poems used rhyme and/or assonance.
Path of the Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa
Buson. By Makoto Ueda.
Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. Bibliography, index, indexes
to hokku,
appendices, 226 pages.
Yosa Buson and His Followers: Haiku &
Painting By Hiroo Saga.
Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481)
Crow
With Noh Mouth: Ikkyu -15th Century Zen Master. Edited by
Stephen Berg.
Copper Canyon Press, 1989. 80 pages.
Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval
Japan. Translated by
Sonya Arntzen.
Ikkyu Sojun: A Zen Monk and His Poetry.
By Sonja Arntzen. 0914584995
The Penguin Book
of Zen Poetry. Translated and Edited by Lucien Stryk and
Takashi Ikemoto.
Penguin USA, Reprint 1988.
A Sampler of Zen Poems
Ryokan, Ikkyu, and Basho. 13K
Unraveling Zen's Red Thread: Ikkyu's Controversial Way.
By Jon Etta Hastings Carter Covell.
Wild Ways: Zen
Poems of Ikkyu. Edited by John Stevens. Shambhala, 1995. 131
pages.
Zen Masters: A Maverick, a Master of Masters,
and a Wandering Poet. Ikkyu, Hakuin, and
Ryokan. By John Stevens. Kodansha International, 1999. 168
pages.
Zen Poetry 310K+
(Issa: "Cup of Tea")
Yataro
Kobayashi (1763-1827)
About Issa. Early Years: Step Child to
Starling. Settled
Years: Return to Kashiwabara.
Restless Years: Issa the
Wanderer. Excellent biograpical information, translations and
commentary by David G. Lanoue. Issa Websites.
Autumn Wind Haiku: Selected Poems by Kobayashi Issa.
By Lewis Mackenzie. Tokyo,
Kodansha International, 1957, Reissued in 1999. 146 pages. Information and
excerpts..
Cool Melons - Turn to Frogs: The Life and Poems of Issa.
Edited by Matthew Gollub,
illustrated by Kazuko G. Stone and Keiko Smith. Lee and Low Books, 1998.
40 pages.
A children's book.
The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa.
Translated by Lucien Stryk and Noboru Fujiwara.
Swallow Press, 1991. 141 pages.
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson and
Issa. Edited with verse translations
by Robert Hass. Hopewell, New Jersey, Ecco Press, 1994. Bibliography, 329
pages.
Haiku By R. H. Blyth. Tokyo, Hokuseido,
1949-1952. A landmark study in Four Volumes.
History of Haiku
By Ryu Yotsuya. Informative short essays on 10 famous Japanese Haiku
poets.
Haiku of Kobayashi Issa
This website offers a very large (1,400+) sample of Issa's haiku
searchable by keyword and by year of composition. Very good translations by David
Lanoue.
Excellent biographical information about Issa provided by Mr. Lanoue: Early Years: Step Child
to Starling. Settled
Years: Return to Kashiwabara. Restless Years: Issa the
Wanderer.
The very best English language website on Kobayashi Issa!!
Introduction to Haiku
Emphasis upon Basho, Issa, and Buson.
Issa's Biography and
Selected Haiku
Issa: Cup-of-Tea Poems; Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa.
Translated by David G. Lanoue.
Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1991.
Issa's Haiku Homepage
Early version of Issa Homepage.
Issa Homepage
Prepared by Yoshi Mikami. Biography + images. Links.
The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and
Other Poets. Translated by Sam Hamill.
Illustrated by Kaji Aso. Shambhala Publications, 2000. 152 pages.
Miniature edition.
The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku.
By Issa Kobayashi. Translated by Sam Hamill.
Illustrated by Kaji Aso. Shambhala Publications, 1997. 176 pages.
The Study of Issa in Modern
Times. By Yoshi Mikami. In English and Japanese. Good links
to Japanese language haiku sites.
That Loveable Old Issa.
By Earle J. Stone.
Zen Poetry 310K+
Masaoka Tsunenori Shiki (1867 - September 19, 1902)
Masaoka Shiki The
Discovery of Haiku.
Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works. By Janine Beichman.
Cheng and Tsui, 2002.
Originally published by Kodansha International in 1986. Includes 15
photographs and
some updated bibliography. Paperback, ISBN: 0887273645.
Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems.
By Masaoka Shiki. Translated by Burton Watson.
Columbia University Press, 1998.
136 pages.
Peony Kana. Translation of 360 Masaoka Shiki's haiku by Harold J.
Issacson.
Shiki and Ishite-ji
"Shiki wrote about eighteen thousand haiku. The years 1894, 1895, and 1896
were a period of vigorous activity: in 1894 he wrote 2366 haiku, in 1895, 2843 haiku, and
in
1896, 3001 haiku." By Kametaro.
Shiki Haiku
Extensive collection of Shiki's haiku arranged by the seasons.
The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon
Shiki Masaoka
Life, paintings, images,
Shiki Masaoka. History
of Haiku by Ryu Yotsuya. In English, Japanese and French.
Shiki Masaoka Haiku Awards Project
Shiki Notes (J144)
Chronology of Shiki's life.
Shiki's Ten
Letters of 1898. Lecture by Donald Keene.
Shiki-temp: A temporary
Shiki mailing list. 2001-
Shiki - The Discovery of
Haiku Six extensive lectures about Shiki by Professor Shigeki Wada.
Songs from a Bamboo Village: Selected Tanka from Takenosato
Uta. By Shiki Masaoka.
Translated by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda. Charles E. Tuttle &
Company,
1998. 424 pages.
Haiku Poetry
Links, References and Resources
Quotes for Gardeners
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips,
Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes, Arranged by 130 Topics
Many of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
Distributed on the Internet by Michael P. Garofalo
I Welcome Your Comments, Ideas, Contributions, and
Suggestions
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A Short Biography of Mike Garofalo
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