Portraits of Japanese Haijin

WHR August 2014

PORTRAITS OF JAPANESE HAIJIN

BY

SUSUMU TAKIGUCHI

PART ONE

Susumu Takiguchi is an artist, poet and essayist as well as a haijin. He has shown his paintings in a series of one-man exhibitions held every year since 2006 in Sasebo and Nagasaki, Japan. One such show contained a group of drawings of eminent Japanese haiku poets in pencil, felt-tip pen and charcoal from Shiki Masaoka to Masajo Suzuki. Beginning with this issue, World Haiku Review will be showing some of these works in three instalments.

Masajo Suzuki (1906-2003)

Hakyo Ishida (1913-1969)

Takako Hashimoto (1899-1963)

Takako Hashimoto (1899-1963) as a young lady

Ippekiro Nakatsuka (1887-1946)

Fusei Tomiyasu (1885-1979)

Takashi Matsumoto (1906-1956)