Just as we still have traditionalists in western poetry, I am told there remain some traditionalists in haiku who write more or less in the old style. I am told, also, that schools and colleges still teach courses in the classical Japanese literary language. Therefore, I hope a reference to the distant roots of haiku, to the seasonal poems found in the great Man'yoshuu, Kokinshuu, Shin Kokinshuu and other collections of the seventh through the thirteenth centuries, and even an attempt at an old-fashioned example, may not be completely out of place.
In the autumn rain
abroad in a strange country
grass for pillow.
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akisame ni
tabi-no-sora no de
kusa-makura
G/W
[This message has been edited by Golias (edited May 07, 2004).]
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