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.
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I had never heard of Haiga. I love that all kinds of images accompany the Haiku. It will be fun to share this with the kiddos. I'll bet a few might really dig this and start a collection of their own creations outside of class.
Well, that's pretty cool.
Love the mushroom Haiga.
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