Essential Haiku and its Subject Matter

Essential Haiku and its Subject Matter

Haiku--history and criticism

Haiku, Japanese

Haiku--explication

Margaret Mitsutani's translation of an essay by Nagata Koi's in which he explored the notion of 'essential haiku,' haiku which reach toward or attain an experience of the limitless, perfect freedom, or the mu, meaning 'nothingness.'

Koi, Nagata

http://modernhaiku.org/essays/nagatakoihaiku.html

Modern Haiku 33.1

Winter/Spring 2002

Translation by Margaret Mitsutani

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