Poems — Zen — Haiku — Non-metaphorical — Basho — Stillnes — Satori —Words — Issa — Buson — Ikkyu
Haiku of the Great Masters
On Haiku
Haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beconing,
a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning
to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our
falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature. It is a way in
which the cold winter rain, the swallows of evening, even the very
day in its hotness, and the length of the night, become truly
alive, share in our humanity, speak thery own silent
and expressive lanugage.
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Kinkoku, Yokoi (1761-1832): A portrait of the poet Basho, with his most famous poem "An old pond - a frog jumps in -" (c.1820). From a collection of portraits of Basho and his disciples along with their respective haiku poems. Haikai Gunsen No Zu ('Portraits Of Haiku Poets').Source: http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=9770
