Contemporary Japan ...

To understand

Articles, Information ...

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi
A very complete English > Japanese dictionary with thematic search

Saijiki or collections of season words

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/saijiki/full.html
Japanese Haiku : a topic dictionary - A dictionary of Japanese season words by themes, with explanation and examples. University Virginia Library.

Web Japan - Gateway for all Japanese information
Links to the Japanese haiku, articles, sites (May 31th)

To meet

Associations, writers ...

Ikuyo Yoshimura and the Evergreen circle (Gifu)

Sawako Nakano (Osaka) (June 04th)

Kuniharu Shimizu (August 24th)

To read

Collections, books ...

cats in love (Ikuyo Yoshimura)
Spring Thunder Haiku from 1991 to 1995 (Ikuyo Yoshimura, Japan)
- Red Fuji (Sélected haïku from Ishihara Yatsuka)

Taneda Santoka and his Somokuto. Somokuto (A Grass and Tree Pagoda) is the most important book of haiku by Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) A wonderful site by Rica Ojara (Nov. 18th)
http://www.rose.ne.jp/~ojara/html/art/soumokutou/e/index.html

Kyoshi (Takahama Kiyoshi, 1874-1959) the great master of haiku compared to Basho in Edo era. http://www.kyoshi.or.jp(Dec. 28th)

Kyoshi's haiku ideology is "kacho fuei". Literally, kacho means flowers and birds, that is, the symbols or representatives of nature. Fuei means to compose a poem. Kyoshi, however, adds his original meaning to the word. His concept of fuei is not just to observe nature and to write verse on it but to admire and worship nature. Thus his phrase "kacho fuei" means that we should compose haiku not only on natural scenes but also about the harmony and concord that exist between human beings and nature.