Listen "Black & Purple Grapes [naviarhaiku619 - almost black]"
Episode Synopsis
almost black
deepening purple
ripe grapes
Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.
He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”
Haiku by Masaoka Shiki
Picture by Hassan Anayi
deepening purple
ripe grapes
Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.
He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”
Haiku by Masaoka Shiki
Picture by Hassan Anayi
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