Haiku. Japanese poems of the four seasons - Nuinui

A work as essential and elegant as a 'haiku,' the world's shortest, best known and most practiced poetic genre. In just 17 syllables, divided into three lines, it conveys a sensory image as ephemeral as a breath and as powerful as lightning! This Japanese-bound volume contains 140 haiku in Japanese characters, accompanied by their translation and divided according to the four seasons and their kigo, the 'season words' that indicate the period to which a particular poem refers. The book, contained in a fun slipcase, is enhanced by striking illustrations by an established Japanese artist, valuable explanatory notes by the editor, and 160 colorful stickers bearing the text of the haiku.