The Mainichi is pleased to release our annual selection of haiku from our Haiku in English section for 2025. Congratulations ...

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 424 pages ...

It is tempting, though probably entirely incorrect, to think of the haiku (and its close relation, the senryu) as the Japanese equivalent of the sonnet. In both cases you are looking at concise verse ...

Haiku is a poetic form of Japanese origin now written worldwide, examples of which should contain a core of poetic truth, distilled from experience deeply felt and keenly perceived. In English, a ...