Haiga 340

Haiku by Alenka Zorman, Slovenia. I made this haiga of the haiku I had excluded from the previous haiga (haiga 339).

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Haiga 339

Haiku by Alenka Zorman, Slovenia. Alenka wrote a series of haiku by the sea. I received the batch and was thinking how I should go about visualizing them. I could have made haiga for each haiku separately, but I tried something experimental. I made a selection of haiku from the batch and made one artwork that fits the mood of the selected haiku.

I sent the haiga to Alenka san on May 25, which Alenka san later informed me was a Day of Youth, a festive day celebrated every year in Slovenia.

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Haiga 338

Haiku by Vincent Tripi (USA). Vincent's haiku somehow reminds me of H.D. Thoreau. Come to think about it, Thoreau might have written haiku, had he known about this genre of poetry.

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Haiga 337

Haiku from the spaceship. This haiku was written while Mrs. Naoko Yamazaki, the astronaut, was on duty in the spaceship.
Artwork and the English translation are by me.

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a bilingual magazine

I just got an email, announcing the publication of "Red Leaves"
"Red Leaves #001 — first edition of the world's only English-language / Japanese bi-lingual literary journal — is back from the printers, and it's exciting us, the editorial team, to no minor or subdued degree! To celebrate, we're representing and selling copies of RL #001 at the 2010 Emerging Writers' Festival, through the Festival's annual Page Parlour event, at the Atrium in Federation Square, Melbourne City, this Sunday, the 23rd of May, from 1 - 5pm.
Red Leaves spans a glorious 360+ pages, and contains new and original bi-lingual work from Toby Litt, Iris Yamashita, Nathaniel Rich, Keiji Minato, Nicholas Hogg, Eric Yoshiaki Dando, Patrick Holland, Hirofumi Sugimoto, David F. Hoenigman, Kenji Siratori, Mandy Ord, Kuniharu Shimizu, Travis Jeppesen and fifteen others."

I see my name listed as a contributors.
Here are related links:
http://j.mp/aLKZOY
http://www.myspace.com/redleaveskoyo
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia-and-Tokyo-Japan/Red-Leaves-/21417527572?ref=nf

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Haiga 336

Haiku by Vincent Tripi of USA. The covered bridge is from Madison county.
May in Japan is a great month. Like today, sky is clear, a lot of sunshine and new green leaves.

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Haiga e-book 4 "Life"

I just added my 4th haiga ebook. It's titled "Life", and contains 87 haiga. Check out my bookstore.

In four ebooks, there are 301 haiga all together. These are my best selections, and are my visual attempts to explore the possibility of the modern haiga.

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Haiga 335

Haiku by Vasile Moldovan. A Romanian poet. Together with Florin Vasiliu and Ion Codrescu, he is one of the founders of the Romanian Society of Haiku. Since the summer of 2001, the executive chairman of the society.

I met Vasile at a haiku gathering in Bulgaria some years back. A quite man, spoke little English, but we were able to communicate soul to soul.

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Haiga 334

Haiku by Kai Falkman of Sweden. Kai san is the president of the Swedish Haiku Society. A former ambassador to Japan. I met him and his wife at the WHA Conference held in my city some years ago.

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Haiga e-book 3 "light"

I added the 3rd. haiga ebook "light" to my book store. Down load the sample book. Check the list of haijin, and if you find your name there, please contact me. I will send a copy.

I am looking for online bookstores that might be interested in carrying my haiga books. Any suggestions?

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Haiga 333

Haiku by Tokiko Hirata of Osaka, Japan.
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WHA5thconf

Photographs from the 5th Japan Conference of WHA

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Haiga eBook sale

Hamburge Haiku Verlad, an online haiku bookstore in Germany, is now selling my haiga eBooks "wind" and "water"
The image is its webpage. The URL is: http://www.haiku.de/index.php?menuid=146

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Haiga book "water"

My new haiga book is ready for sale now. The book contains 75 color plates of haiga, 65 haijin included.
I am presenting a copy to the haijin. If you find your name in the list, please contact me.

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Haiga 332

Haiku by Tokiko Hirata (Japan). Tokiko's son, who is a retired pharmaceutical scientist, became my friend when I made several haiga for his mother. The son self-publishes haiku anthology every year, and I was invited to the anthology several times. The anthology is called "Haiku Friends"

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Book cover design

Ban'ya Natsuishi and Sayumi Kamakura wrote a series of 52 essays for a newspaper last year. These essays were compiled into a book, and I was asked to do its cover design. The title means something like " Haiku, moving to and from everywhere". The book will be published by Chusekisha, Tokyo sometime in June.

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eBook project

The photo is sent to me by my publisher in LA. My haiga eBook "Narrow Road to the Deep North" is in the making. The book is being tested on Amazon KindleDX e-reader, and on desktop PC. Kindle shows only monochrome images, but the book data is in full color so if viewed on PC/Mac, or color e-readers like ipad, you can enjoy the color version.
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