by
Denise Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Traditional Japanese Haiku, pronounced, high-koo, is a short poem of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven, five, usually inspired by the observation of the natural world. Basho, pen name of Matsuo Munefusa, (1644–1694), a celebrated Japanese poet, popularized the form in the 17th century....