Word: haiku
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...snow-capped peaks, visits to historic shrines and stays at more inns, some now museums. We buy cheap sushi lunches at small-town supermarkets. Each evening, stone lanterns, which once marked village boundaries, are lit to signal the day's end. Summits are adorned with stones carved with haiku, such as this passage left by Princess Kazonomiya in 1864 on her way to an arranged marriage, escorted by a retinue of 10,000: "As we rush through the pass I look back towards the capital and ponder the transience of existence...
...last survivors of the Bataan death march from their prisoner-of-war camp, has raced up the best-seller lists. (Ghost Soldiers is a useful corrective to Pearl Harbor. In the film, the Japanese navy appears to have been staffed by the sort of man who writes a regretful haiku on the horrors of war before breakfast; in the book, Japanese soldiers burn prisoners alive for fun.) And after much dithering, ground will shortly be broken on the Mall in Washington for a monument to those who fought in World...
...Indeed the Guardian's poetry competition may have prove just that. Aside from a few barely intelligible verses fitted with squiggly symbols, most entries read like bad haiku transliterated from the Japanese. Which is why the critics...
...sits atop a Plexiglas pedestal engraved with the words THIS SPHERE WILL BE A SHARP POINT WHEN IT GETS TO THE FAR CORNERS OF THE ROOM IN YOUR MIND. You can try lending weight to this by comparing it to the gentle paradoxes of Zen and the subtleties of haiku. In the show's catalog, Alexandra Munroe, the director of Japan Society Gallery, who curated this show, tries. But no one would blame you if Peanuts also came to mind...
...weigh the pros and cons of dorm life went over well too. "I'm going though some of these same things," said Layra, 17. On the downside, they found the overall format and design dull. Unlike Alloy and Bolt, which pulsate with colors, animations and links, Kibu's haiku look--which features nothing but a series of faces on the opening page--got old fast. "It's too flat," said Aurin, 17. Others scoffed at topics like how to write a love letter ("If you need help writing a love letter, you're not in love," said Sheresa...