Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka translations
Takaha Shugyo (1930-) was born in Japan's mountainous Yamagata Prefecture and began writing haiku at age fifteen. He studied with Yamaguchi Seishi and Akimoto Fujio, won the Young Poet's Award in 1965, then went on to found the haiku magazine KARI in 1978.
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
―Takaha Shugyo, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
A single tree
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Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka translations
Takaha Shugyo (1930-) was born in Japan's mountainous Yamagata Prefecture and began writing haiku at age fifteen. He studied with Yamaguchi Seishi and Akimoto Fujio, won the Young Poet's Award in 1965, then went on to found the haiku magazine KARI in 1978.
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
―Takaha Shugyo, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
A single tree
......