Haiku; Resources for Understanding

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www.toyomasu.com/haiku This site provides a general description  with brief techniques and form examples with biography of Haiku founder, Basho.  Wonderful links provided.

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www.faximum.com/aha.d/haiku.htm This site provides an excellent analysis of formal Haiku structure,  Provides rules and examples to interested students of the form. By Jane Reichhold.

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home.clara.net/pka/haiku/haiku.htm Haiku homepage.  Encourages the viewer to interact and experiment with the form.  Helpful discussions.

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www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/poet/haiku.html Elegant and brief homepage with interesting facts and resources.  Excellent design and simplicity.

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www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ehisinx.shtml A history of the Haiku and its greatest masters.  It provides work and background on each of these masters.

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www.tecnet.or.jp/~haiku/ Haiku for children, by children.  Both Japanese and other children's work from around the world.  Photographs provided with each poem. 

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www.hsa-haiku.org/ Haiku Society of America with newsletter, recourses, and events.  Previous issues available along with contest information and awards.

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http://www.everypoet.com/absurdities/index.htm Poetry site encouraging personal exploration with Haiku.  Provides Haiku generator and abilities to share personal poetry.

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www.family-net.net/~brooksbooks Site devoted to the development in the English language.  Seeks to promote a view of Haiku as a literarily genre with its own historic traditions.

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www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/5022/ Vivid imagery and scholarly analysis of Haiku and its influence toward twentieth century Anglo-American poetry movement known as imagism.  Interacts with user.

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http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/studentessays/NeapolitanOnSpacing.html Astute essay by student attending Millikin university.  Provided for Global Tradition Conference.  Details space and form in Haiku.

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http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/studentessays/AymerOnMusicality.html musicality and the Haiku discussed during Global Traditional Conference, Spring 2001.  Provides Sketches on flow of given examples of the 

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http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku4.htm Site on teaching Haiku for grades 2 through collage.  Links, quotations, and lessons provided for didactic and personal use.

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http://www.worldhaikureview.org/ Magazine of The World Haiku Club.  Has art Haiku illustrations.  Extremely elegant site design.  Wonderful site to peruse

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http://www.haikuhut.com/ Large general site providing forums to share work and showcase for talented poets.  Link images and photo Haiku from around the world.

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http://www.haiku.com/ Comprehensive site devoted to Haiku information.  Includes contest, festivals, essays, and journals.  Asian and western societies and reference archives are provided.

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http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~beck/kametaro/index.html History of Haiku publications and education in Japan.  Excellent scholars research site, extremely popular and compressive.

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http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~kuni/haiga_gallery/index.html Digital haiku gallery with works from over 170 modern and ancient poets.  Haiku accompanies by digital artwork as related to poems.

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http://www.haikai.info/ Site seeks to be a premier clearing house of information of Haiku on the web.  Excellent link resource to journals and organizations.

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http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ebasho.shtml History site covers ten Haikuists and their works.  Brief biography of each poet.  Many examples of the poems.

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http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/Nakasendo/basho.htm Biography on Basho, founder of Haiku.  Links to images of locations that Basho traveled to during his life in Japan.

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http://www.prajnaparamita.com/ An interfaith dialogue site.  Buddhist Sangha site.  Spiritual website with teachings of all world wisdom traditions.

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http://www.come.to/worldhaiku/ Official web site of The World Haiku Club.  Online magazine promotes attendance to local and worldwide events.  Connected to World Haiku Festival, originally held at London 2000 conference.

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http://www.angelfire.com/pq/bigcec/photos7.html Haiku page including many poems with excellent art photography and exceptional visuals with related Haiku.  Vivid color imagery.

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http://www.jal-foundation.or.jp/html/Haiku/html/english/EE_HaikuGuide.htm Guide for teaching Haiku.  Provides lesson plan for teaching Haiku to all ages.  Charming and playful imagery with sophistication.

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http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/zen.htm Interesting article on relationship of Zen to Haiku.  Basho was Zen trained and ordained as a priest.

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http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/Digests/haiku.html A national clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan studies.  Basho history and Japan Digest.

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http://partnersinverse.com/haiku_definition.html Haiku background with many traditional Japanese terms.  Wonderful color photographs and wonderful Haiku links listed.

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http://jimages.com/botanic.htm Many examples of Haiku with vibrant and colorful images relating to some most famous Haiku master poets.  Specific exacting imagery.

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http://www.btinternet.com/~janie_thomson/mainpages/haiku.html Many humorous cat Haiku.  Associations to the writers own cat and its own interpretative thoughts.

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http://members.aol.com/frenjp/haiku/haiku.htm Three traditions in Haiku; artist, ascetic-seeker, and humanist.  Merges traditional Japanese Haiku with American cultural milieu.