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Hekigoto’s Principles

Masoaka Shiki’s 1892 reform of haiku standards, extended with Kawahigashi Hekigoto’s precepts:. Hekigoto’s Principles. Haiku would be truer to reality if there were no center of interest in it. There is importance to the poet’s first impression, just as it was, of

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Hekigoto’s Principles

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  1. Masoaka Shiki’s 1892 reform of haiku standards, extended with Kawahigashi Hekigoto’s precepts: Hekigoto’s Principles

  2. Haiku would be truer to reality if there were no center of interest in it. There is importance to the poet’s first impression, just as it was, of subjects taken from daily life, and of local color to create freshness. Reality

  3. Haiku-poems can describe almost anything, but you seldom find themes which are too complicated for immediate recognition and understanding. Some of the most thrilling Haiku-poems describe daily situations in a way that gives the reader a brand new experience of a well-known situation. Subject

  4. Haiku poems consist of respectively five seven and five syllables in three units; in English this is three lines. Structure

  5. The cutting divides the haiku into two parts, with a certain imaginative distance between the two sections, but the two sections must remain, to a degree independent of each other… Both sections must enrich the understanding of the other. To make the cutting in English, either the first or the second line ends normally with : - or … Cutting

  6. Each Haiku must contain a season word (kigo), which indicates in which season the Haiku is set. For example, cherry blossoms indicate spring, snow indicates winter, and mosquitoes indicate summer, but the season word isn’t always that obvious. Kigo

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