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I have been having an extended discussion with a commenter about gomei.  See t his post and the comment thread . For the guests, learnin...

 natsu no yo no fusu ka to sureba hototoguisu naku hitokoe ni akuru shinonome On a summer night, no sooner have I lain down than the...

I am happy to say that This Moment: Tea Ceremony Haiku by Margaret Chula is back in print. It is priced at $10.00 and is available from Ka...

My friend Margaret Chula, poet, has a new book out. What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps , Poems by Margaret Chula, Art Qu...

Every year the Emperor of Japan selects a poetic theme for the next year. The theme is announced and guest poets and the public are invited...

Aki no ni sakitaru hana o yubi orite kaki kazoureba nana kusa no hana hagi ga hana obana kuzubana nadeshiko no hana ominaeshi mata fujibakam...

'Poetry has its seed in the human heart and blossoms forth in innumerable leaves of words ... it is poetry which, with only a part of it...

Since ancient time in Japan, poetry has played a major role in cultural life and continues to be widely practiced today. One direct way tha...

The aesthetic of wabi permeates and defines beauty for the Japanese culture. It is the ideal of Chanoyu yet wabi often is difficult to defi...

stone Buddha so serene so good unlike me

About a year and a half ago, I assigned myself a project. I wanted to write a haiku a day for a year. Everyone knows about haiku from grad...