Happy Holidays!

 

Old Pond wishes you Happy Holidays!

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Haiku Path-5

 

 Old Pond comic from 2010-12-20.

This week’s lesson: Choose your haiku teacher carefully.

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See haiku here, a blog by Kuniharu Shimizu

 

SEE HAIKU HERE

I recommend Kuniharu Shimizu’s blog See haiku here (all about haiku+artwork, photo, prose) featuring haiga, haibun, reflection on art and poetry.  Very original haiga using illustrations, photos, etc.

Start by reading this post about Japanese calligraphy masters asking why a foreigner would chose to do sumie instead of using western tools of expression.

You don’t have to know sumie to do beautiful haiga.  Kuniharu Shimizu’s blog is a beautiful illustration of that.

 

Old Pond – The Haiku Path #4

Old Pond haiku comic from 2010-12-13:

In Edo, Kaeru looks for a haiku teacher and meets a Modernist… but does he really teaches haiku?

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Haiku for… David Ash

 

 

 

Great article on David Ash , the author/publisher of the famous book series Haiku for… (Cat lovers, Christmas, Office workers, etc..):

http://www.nwbooklovers.org/2010/12/06/david-ash-famous-living-haiku-writer/

 

 

The Haiku Path #3

 

Old Pond haiku comic from 2010-12-06:

Kaeru chooses to go to Edo instead of exploring the Old Pond. What kind of adventures await our little frog in the ancient capital of Japan.

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