Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
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Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
After meditation I chant a Cold Mountain poem after dinner I brew grain-rain tea and when some feeling lingers I can’t express I take a basket across the ridge and gather vine flowers
Stonehouse Red Pine • The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
One of these was the haiku poet Taneda Santoka.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
He took haiku to a deeper level, espousing haikai no michi (the Way of Haiku)