Stories, Plays & Essays
The Old Pond and Other Essays on Haiku
古池の句の弁ほか 俳論三篇
Masaoka Shiki · 1898–1900 · translated by Valentin Sarić
In three sharp essays the man who remade haiku explains how he did it: his confession of the bad verses he loved as a beginner, a sumo-style bout between Kyoto and Edo, and a defense of Bashō's old pond verse.
A New English Translation by Valentin Sarić. AI-assisted translation.
84pages
1898–1900first published
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