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Art: Haiku

In this lesson you will read about Haiku, and write or translate some Haiku poems.

Part 1: Vocabulary 

Part 2: Write Haiku 

Read about Haiku. Answer these questions:

1) When was Matsuo Basho born?2) What is the syllable pattern for a Haiku poem?3) Do you need a season word or 5-7-5 syllable pattern in English Haiku?4) What is Haiku like?

Part 3: Write or trans late Haiku 

In part three you can write your own Haiku in English, or translate English Haiku into Japanese.

Option 1: Write Haiku:

In your notebook write 3, 4 or 5 Haiku in English. Remember you don’t have to use season words or have a5-7-5 pattern. You can also write about anything you like.

Option 2: Translate English Haiku into Japanese:

Write these Haiku in Japanese. Bonus point: make the Japanese Haiku 5-7-5  

SPAM farts from the canThen three hours later, I fart.

Mute pigs speaking twice.

On a fall SundayI was reading a comic book

Until it fell

There are a lot of lights, voices and music sounds

at the summer festival

Young loversBrush pink petals

Confetti

One day of early spring A snowman melts

I drink it

Railroad crossing bellsstop a mid-summer's day

from rushing on by

Find these words in the dictionary. Write the meaning in your notebook.

Composition, popular, famous, poem, syllable season.

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Haiku

Haiku is a kind of poem famous in Japan. It has been written for hundreds of years and the most famous poet is Matsuo Basho who was born in 1644 anddied in 1694. A good Haiku is like a photograph. When you read it you can seethe situation.

Haiku has a special pattern of 5-7-5 syllables. For example:

古池や furu ike ya 5 The old pond -

蛙飛び込む kawazu tobikomu 7 a frog jumps in

水の音 mizu no oto 5 Sound of water 

To write traditional Japanese Haiku you have to have a season word (kigo 季語).

この道や Kono michi ya Along this road

行く人なしに yuku hito nashini Goes no one,

秋のくれ  aki no kure This Autumn eve.

However Basho didn’t always have this! 

There are many Haiku poems written by people from around the world, but the rules of composition havechanged. In English Haiku, and some Japanese Haiku too, you do not need a season word and you do notneed to have 5-7-5 syllables.

Here is the winner from a Haiku competition in Ehime in 1990. It was written by a man from Yugoslavia!

 After the storm 5  A boy wiping the sky 6 From the tables 5 

Here are some more examples of English Haiku:

SPAM farts from the canThen three hours later, I fart.

Mute pigs speaking twice.

On a fall SundayI was reading a comic book

Until it fell

There are a lot of lights, voices and music sounds

at the summer festival

Young loversBrush pink petals

Confetti

One day of early spring A snowman melts

I drink it

Railroad crossing bellsstop a mid-summer's day

from rushing on by