The Haiku Apprentice by Abigail Friedman

Author:Abigail Friedman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 2012-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

柿喰えばかねが鳴るなり法降寺

kaki kueba kane ga naru nari Hōryūji

as I bite into a persimmon

a bell begins to ring

Hōryūji

SHIKI

Every schoolchild learns this one because the first three sounds—ka, ki, ku—are the first sounds of the Japanese alphabet. He actually had been hearing the bells of another temple, Tōdaiji, but he changed it to Hōryūji, a temple famous for its persimmon trees. I suppose he thought it fit better with his poem that way.

I was about to ask him whether he thought it was legitimate to forgo realism for beauty in haiku, when he picked up another thread.

There is a poem of mine you selected at one of our Numamomo haiku classes.

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