Kasuri Haiku

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the yellow rose

tickles the bulls nose

as he forages

~

© Carol Campbell

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This rhyming in haiku is new to me but I learn a lot at CDHK. Here’s the assignment from Chevrefeuille:

This month we are exploring haiku writing techniques used by Basho, my sensei. And I am happy to announce to you all that I will create a CDHK e-book “In The Way of Basho” in which I will gather all the posts about the haiku writing techniques used by Basho and the CD-Specials in which I introduce disciples of Basho, the so called “Shoomon disciples” or “Shoomon school”. Next to all the posts I will include your submissions to every post at the end of every chapter (episodes). You can already find a preview at the right side of our Kai, free for download.

Okay … back to our haiku writing technique for this episode. In this episode I love to introduce “kasuri” or“frame rhyme”.

from Kyoto’s many houses
a crowd of ninety-nine thousand
blossom viewing

© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

To understand this “kasuri” technique I also will give you the Romaji translation of this haiku:

kyo wa kuman kusen kunju no hanami kana

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