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Kato District Education Network Internet Fair '98 Spring & Summer |
 [ Japanese ] |
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Kato District Education Network Internet Fair '98 Spring & Summer |
[ Japanese ] |
Welcome to the Haiku Village! The following schools have sent their haiku for posting at the fair:
-Yashiro Elementary (Yashiro, Japan)
-Garfield Elementary (Yashiro Elementary's sister school in Olympia, WA U.S.A.)
| Garfield Elementary: 3rd Graders' Haiku | |||
Calendar(7 haiku) |
Places (3 haiku) |
Human Activity (13 haiku) |
Animals (6 haiku) |
| Yashiro Elementary: 6th Graders' Haiku | ||||
| Spring Haiku | ||||
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Calendar (5 haiku) |
Weather & Sky (2 haiku) |
Human Activity (2 haiku) |
Animals (2 haiku) |
Plants (10 haiku) |
| Summer Haiku | ||||
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Calendar (4 haiku) |
Weather & Sky (5 haiku) |
Human Activity (2 haiku) |
Animals (3 haiku) |
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A few notes on haiku:
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry dating from the Edo period. It is divided into 3 phrases of 5-7-5 beats, for a total of 17 beats. Following is a famous haiku by Matsuo Basho:the old pond
a frog jumps in
sound of water
You'll notice that this translation does not keep with the 5-7-5 rule. The original Japanese does, however. It sounds something like this:
(*Note: The i sounds like the i in pizza.)fu-ru-i-ke-ya
ka-wa-zu-to-bi-ko-mu
mi-zu-no-o-to
Writing haiku takes discipline! If you count the syllables of the original haiku in English above you'll find that each one is in the 5-7-5 pattern. Quite an achievement!
Traditional haiku always contain a season word. It sets the poem to a certain time and place. The haiku in English above were given titles by the authors. I considered these as the haiku's "season word" and organized them into traditional haiku catagories.