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...Haiku. Interspersed with Nikkei's business surveys, stock tables and industry profiles are features that seem to stretch its avowed policy to "inform the public of economic affairs." Each 16-page issue, for example, devotes one page to general news, including crime and the weather, one page to sports, another page to culture. Nikkei's art criticism is rated as the best of any newspaper in Japan. And it even finds room for those familiar staples of all Japanese newspapers : a serialized novel and an assortment of haiku, the classic three-line poem whose origins go back centuries...
...highly stylized verses* whose aim is to evoke a moment or a mood, rather than convey a moral or tell a story, as in Western poetry. One of the top features of Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,568,000) is its Sunday selection of the ten best haiku and waka culled from some 500 it receives weekly. Last week an amateur poet named Akito Shima achieved the rare distinction of having had his work printed in the paper's poetry section for 17 successive weeks. Even by the melancholy standards of most Japanese poetry, they are unusually...
...haiku consists of 17 syllables, usually arranged in three lines; the waka, of 31 syllables, usually in five lines. * Despite such enthusiasm, say prison officials, inmates would be too "ashamed" to enter their work for Emperor Hirohito's annual poetry-reading party. Held last week, it was televised for the first time, attracted 31,621 entries, including 74 in Braille, 53 poems from non-Japanese...
...anti-American. "I know what a great nation and people America could be, but it won't be until there is only one American, regardless of his color." Also published: the first excerpts of some of Wright's last works-poems in the medieval Japanese haiku style. Among them...
...natural voice and "not the one in which we try to curry favour with children at a party, or with an election crowd, or with a traffic cop.'' To show what happens when a poet merely apes passing fashions. Graves does a parody of a Japanese haiku called "The Loving Parents...