The Haiga

Last few fab days of vacay.  In a week we'll be back in action, learning about, and with, a new group of 3rdLanders. Can't wait to meet 'em. I hope they have pleasant personalities. 

We usually start the year learning about Kobayashi Issa, the great haiku poet.  We follow up with a haiku hike around our playground.  After the hike, we write haiku and add watercolor imagery.  Voila.  Morning #1.

I just learned today that the combination of haiku with imagery is called haiga.  Haiga has been around for centuries.  During the EDO period (1603 - 1867), people who felt like it would create haiga for fun, sometimes at gatherings.  Haiga writers of today may use photography or collage with their haiku, rather than watercolor.  See above.