A critical guide that uses notable haiku from each season to introduce ways of reading and appreciating the form. It connects classic poems to contemporary reading and opens up the pleasures of haiku.

It introduces 413 famous haiku by season and leads readers on a journey through contemporary haiku.

A critical study that follows Ono Rinka’s haiku and personality to interpret his practice as a poet and his humanism. Through close readings of his collections, it quietly sketches the breadth of his work.

It portrays Rinka as a humanist who tried to rescue the sick and the unfortunate through haiku.

A critical study tracing the careers of haiku poet-professors at Niigata Medical University and the background where haiku and scholarship intersect.

A book that digs into the place where haiku and scholarship meet.