Don’t feed the deer

This comic is inspired by the deer population roaming the University of Victoria campus during the SHARP 2017 conference.

The gift

don’t carry off

don’t carry off

my haiku collection!

deer at my hut

–haiku by Kobayashi Issa (English translation by David G. Lanoue), illustrated with a cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)

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Day 1 of the NaHaiWriMo challenge. The goal of the National Haiku Writing Month is to write one haiku a day. I decided to let Issa do the writing, and I’ll create one haiku-comic a day in February.

Michael Dylan Welch, the creator of the event, is providing inspiration with his daily prompt. The February 1 writing prompt was: “ HAIKU (write a serious haiku ABOUT haiku, which is hard to do well)”

I logged in to the Kobayashi Issa haiku database by David G. Lanoue on the HaikuGuy.com/issa website, typed “haiku” and found 11 haiku with the word “haiku” written by Issa.

I think I’ll make it my goal this month to illustrate lesser-known haiku by Kobayashi Issa (if the prompts allow it).

Enjoy!

at the dinner

at the dinner

tray’s edge…

a green rice field

-– A haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics

Pigeons and sparrows

pigeons and sparrows

come! come!

I’ve got rice cakes

— haiku by Kobayashi Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue), cartoon by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)

 

Zap

NaHaiWriMo 1: Zap.

Your fly is open

Table manners are important, even amongs frogs.

My rice field

my rice field

the greatest sight of all!

summer’s early dawn

• Haiku by Kobayashi Issa translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay from Old Pond Comics

No bother at all

such sweet harmony

such sweet harmony

to be reborn

a meadow butterfly!

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Old Pond Comics