Haiku

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Poems by both men and women from the 1600s to the present day are beautifully illustrated with images from the unrivalled collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum.

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Haiku poems about the natural world and the seasons are well known, but many poets have used the genre to capture the evocations of love. Combining elegant and restrained haiku with lively senryu poems, all aspects of romantic love are explored here with humour, satire, wit and compassion. Poems by both men and women from the 1600s to the present day are beautifully illustrated with images from the unrivalled collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum. From the tender and the melancholy to the witty and the ribald, the poems and images in Haiku: Love comment on the most universal of human emotions.

Additional information

Weight 366 g
Dimensions 18.5 × 19.2 × 1.6 cm
Author

Publisher

The British Museum Press

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

96

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

895.6104108 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K