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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font>From: <span><span name="Brooks, Mark"></span></span><span><span name="Montgomery Michael"></span></span><span><span name="Veturlidi Oskarsson"></span></span><span><span name="Heinrich Becker"></span></span><span><span name="Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell"></span></span><span><span name="Theo Homan"></span></span><span><span name="Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong"></span></span><span><span name="Roland Desnerck"></span></span><span><span name="Mike Morgan"></span></span></font><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"></span></span></font><span class="gI"><span name="Mike Morgan" class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font>Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Literature" 2012.10.04 (04) [EN]</span></font></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font><br><span></span></font></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In my understanding, haiku were a form of intellectual contest<br>
originally... who could put the most whollop in the few syllables<br>
allotted them.<br><br>
To do so, they HAVE to be personal -- subjective -- but in a universal
<br>
-- objective -- sort of way. This of course is easier in a culture<br>
like Japan where people have many of the same experiences-- there's<br>
not a single Japanese educated since the 60s who has not, for example,<br>
had the experience of "raising" an 朝顔 <i>asagao </i>"morning face" (i.e.<br>
morning glory) flower during the summer vacation of 2nd grade. Such<br>
commonality of experience makes it perhaps "easier" for telegraphic<br>
"observations".<br><br>
We maybe look on the "has to have at least one allusion to season",
<br>
"has to have at least one "cutting word" (切れ字 <i>kireiji</i>, clause final<br>
suffixes or clitics which are generally emphatic or exclamatory in<br>
tone)", etc as "rules" to follow, making the task harder, but, I<br>
suspect, in fact they make the going easier... again, if you leave<br><i>Ochinaa </i>
(Okinawa) aside (it was, after all, for most of history, NOT a<br>
part of Japan), there is some variation in season between north and<br>
south (sorry, to a Japanese it is east and west!), wherever you go<br>
there are 4 seasons... and much of the same flora and fauna (or used<br>
to be... much less of either these days... although the occasional<br>
bear does wander down into towns and villages here and there).<br><br>
I used to compose haiku for my annual new years cards, usually in
<br>
competing Japanese, English and Russian (and later JSL) versions...<br>
but haven't done that since new years cards went electronic ;-)<br></span><div class="im">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
> If a poem with Haiku meter does not directly deal with season and nature but<br>
> instead deals with humanity, especially with the state, weaknesses and folly<br>
> of humanity, namely constitutes a social comment, then it is a senryū (川柳,<br>
> literally "river willow")<br><br></span>
</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Just a note: sometime towards the end of last decade I think, Japanese<br>
Public Broadcasting (NHK) TV's news in sign language (which had<br>
started about 1991) started to have sign language senryu once a week.<br>
Not sure whether it is the fact that the casters who did the senryu<br>
were the hearing not the deaf casters, or because by their inherent<br>
non-universality (although I lived in japan for 18.5 years I cannot<br>
say I ever managed to even fake a Japanese view on Japanese society) I<br>
never much "appreciated" them.<br><br>
On the other hand, the annual imperial haiku was always a joy (as
<br>
indeed was the Empress herself, one of the gentlest human beings one<br>
is ever likely to meet...)<br><br>
mwm || *U*C> || mike || माईक || мика || マイク (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)
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sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>
academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br>
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