Haiku HOW-TO HAIKU Haiku Techniques - Jane Reichhold Another Definition of Haiku - Jane Reichhold Fragment and Phrase Theory -Jane Reichhold Haiku Rules That Have Come and Gone - Jane Reichhold Some Thoughts on Rethinking Haiku - Jane Reichhold Forms in English Haiku - Keiko Imaoka ARTICLES ON HAIKU WRITING A Reading of the Prizewinners - Lenard D. Moore Metaphor in Basho's Haiku - Jane ...

HISTORY OF HAIKU 10 haikuists and their works Previous Page Chapter 2 Basho Matsuo (1644 ~ 1694) Basho Matsuo is known as the first great poet in the history of haikai (and haiku). He too, wrote poems using jokes and plays upon words in his early stages, as they were in fashion, but began to attach importance to the role of thought in haikai (especially in hokku) from around 1680. The thought of ...