a - z

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A

aesthetics (evaluation criteria/appreciation of beauty

aware (ah wah ray/touchingness)

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B

Bashō, Matsuo (1644–1694 Nov 28)

Blyth, Reginald Horace

Buddhism

bunjin (educated or literati, tree grown in this style)

Buson, Yosa (1716–1783 Dec 25)

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C

calender (resource page)

Chiyo-ni (1703-1775 Oct 2)

choka (form of waka - also nagauta)

comments and contact

concentration (focus)

Confucianism

conjure (evoke/invoke)

contemplation (absorbed)

copyright

curriculum (teaching guides)

cutting word (kire-ji)

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E

evoke (conjure forth - out)

English language haiku

epigramaiga (new word)

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F

filters (layers of the psyche's onion)

freebies (free utilities)

fueki ryuko (immutable mutability)

fukyo (poetic dementia)

fuga no makoto (truth/sincerity of poetic art)

fuga (truth, elegance of poetics)

furyu (way of wind and stream)

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G

garakuta (garbage, jumble, odds and ends - haiku)

gendai (modern haiku concept)

geodesic_eye (haikai blog)

ginko (haiku walk)

Glossaries (Google)

Still in the Stream(Richard R. Powell)

Haikai Glossary(Terebess Asia Online - TAO)

pvt

gogyoshi (5 line poem)

Taro Aizu (inventor of gogyoshi)

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H

haibun (also see: nikki and kikôbun)

haibunga (illustrated haibun)

haigo (haiku pen name)

haiga (simple image + haiku et al)

haijin (haiku poet)

haikai [haikai no renga, modern term: renku]

haikai-ka (comic verses, of the Kokinshu)

haikai no renga

haiku (abr: haikai-no-ku) [haik-ku/ haik(ai)+(hok)ku]

haiku competition (kukai)

haiku crossroads (premier haiku site)

haiku: English language

Haiku Herman (strategic)

haiku lessons (best available)

haiku moment (aha! eureka! ah so!)

hairon (haiku theory, or essay)

hanami {flower viewing, cherry: sakura)

heta-uma (rough art)

hokku (starting verse)

honi (poetic essence)

honkadori (*allusion within a poem, to an older poem)

hosomi ('Slenderness')

honsetsu (*allusion to original text or episode)

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I

ichibutsu jitate (single image)

Ichi-go, Ichi-e (embrace moment, enjoy)

Issa, Kobayashi (Jun 15, 1763-Nov 19, 1827)

invoke (conjure forth - in)

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J

Japan

aesthetics

language

Japanese-English Translation

religion

Buddhism

Confucianism

Shinto

Taoism

Jittetsu, (ten great disciples of Basho's Showmon)

juxtaposition (relate two images)

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K

kana (Japanese syllabary, alphabets)

kanjaku (extreme quiet)

kanji (Chinese characters)

karumi (lightness)

kidai (seasonal theme, phrase, activity)

kigo (seasonal reference+ / see non-season & muki kigo)

kigo list (kiyose)

kikôbun & nikki (journal and travel literature/haibun)

kire-ji (cutting word/punctuation)

kiyose (kigo list only, see saijiki )

koan (mind-stretcher)

Kobayashi Issa

kokoro (flowering heart of things, feeling, swell / kokoro no hana)

kukai (haiku competition)

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L

Lao Tzu (Tao school founder, also see Zhuangzi)

Lessons, haiku (best available)

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M

ma (interval/space between/dream space)

Matsuyama City

Matsuyama Declaration (global haiku manifesto)

makoto (sincerity+)

meditation (connected)

michi (way or path)

mind (manas, psyche)

monostich (one line poem)

mu (nothingness)

muki kigo ('seasonless' haiku)

non-season kigo in the Gendai Haiku saijiki (essay)

Mushin (mindlessness)

Matsuyama Declaration

Minimalism ('less is more' art)

mono no aware (sensitivity to things)

montage (assemblage of image fragments)

morae (on, onji

mushin (without mind)

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N

natsukashii (wrapped in a memory)

Nikki and Kikôbun (journal and travel literature/haibun)

non-season kigo

non-season kigo in the Gendai Haiku saijiki (essay)

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O

on (onji, morae) (japanese sound units)

Onitsura, Uejima (ultra-sincerity, makoto)

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P

poetic diary (Japanese song diaries, uta nikki)

psyche (inner instrumentality)

punctuation (marks to focus written text)

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R

renga (collaborative, linked verse)

rengay (carries a theme)

renku ('linked verses'/haikai no renga)

renso (loose association of disparate images)

right/left-brain (information processing)

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S

sabi (worldly worn)

saijiki (kigo with example haiku/ kiyose, list only)

sakura (cherry blossom viewing)

schema (conceptualmap)

Scifaiku (science fiction/fantasy haikuesque)

'seasonless' haiku (muki kigo)

senryu (soap opera, similar to haiku in form)

senryuga (illustrated senryu - our word!)

sensei (teacher, master)

senses (receptors for incoming data)

shasei (sketch from life)

shibumi (astringency, classical elegant separateness)

shijin (poet)

Shiki, Masaoka (Sep 17, 1867–Sep 19, 1902)

Shinto (aboriginal Japanese religion)

shomon

[Basho school] Because of Basho's mendicant existence

the school was considered to reside with the author and with the

jittetsu, the ten great disciples.

SHOW not tell (evoke/invoke a non-verbal experience)

single image haiku (one-liner, monostich)

shofu (eye-opening enlightenment in the Bashō manner)

Still in the Stream (glossary: Richard R. Powell)

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T

tanka (5 line Japanese poem, derived from waka)

Taoism (Chinese philosophical system)

taiga (illustrated tanka)

tercet (three lines of poetry)

toriawase (combining two images)

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U

uta nikki (song diary)

utamakura (poetic pillow)

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V

vairagya (detachment)

visualisation (evoke/invoke imagery)

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W

waka (first Japanese poetry forms)

wabi (simple country life, also see)

wabisabi (also see: sabi and this)

Way of Elegance

From two Japanese words michi (way or path) and fuga (the elegance of poetry). The elegance referred to in this phrase involves a combination of courtly grace and rural charm. Think of the well educated farmer. The Way of Elegance involves following furyu, and practicing artistic expression as a form of spiritual discipline.

WKD (World Kigo Database)

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Y

Yasuda, Kenneth (coined the term haiku moment)

Yosa Buson (classical haijin)

yugen (depth and mystery in aloneness)

yuuga (elegance)

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Z

Zappai (varients of haiku & senryu)

Zhuangzi (Tao school founder, also see Lao Tzu)

zoka (Nature's creativity and changes)

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This index is a living document and as such will develop - so, be sure to return regularly to this page, if you like. Not just to note any changes, but also to review the material in the light of your own understanding.