Kigo and Seasonal Reference: Cross-cultural Issues in Anglo-American Haiku

Kigo and Seasonal Reference: Cross-cultural Issues in Anglo-American Haiku

Kigo

Season words

A discussion of differences between season words as used in English-language haiku, and kigo within the Japanese literary context.

Gilbert, Richard -
with Yûki Itô, Tomoko Murase, Ayaka Nishikawa, and Tomoko Takaki

Kumamoto Studies in English Language and Literature 49, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, March 2006 (pp. 29-46); revised from Simply Haiku 3.3 (Autumn 2005).

2006

All rights reserved. This essay appears here with the kind permission of the author.

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