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Reginald H. Blyth, History of Haiku, 2 vol. (1963–64, reissued 1996), is both a history and an anthology of haiku in English translation, and Haiku, 4 vol. (1949–52, reissued 1981–82), expands the anthology. Another notable collection is Cor Van den Heuvel (ed.), The Haiku Anthology: Haiku and Senryu in English, 3rd ed. (1999). Robert Hass (ed. and trans.), The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa (1994, reissued 2013), contains translations of three masters of the form by Hass, a former U.S. poet laureate. Hiroaki Sato, One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English (1983), discusses the history and criticism of renga and haiku and the problems of translation. Kenneth Yasuda, The Japanese Haiku (1957, reissued 2001), is an invaluable study.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: Association for Asian Studies - Transplanting the Haiku. | Nov 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Bitesize - Looking at limericks and haiku. | Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The use of haiku to convey complex concepts in neuroscience. | Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - To Honor Impermanence: The Haiku and Other Poems of Gerald Vizenor (PDF). | Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education - The History and Artistry of Haiku. | Dec 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Association for Asian Studies - Transplanting the Haiku. | Jun 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Haiku Poetry: An Introductory Study (PDF). | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Famous Haikus Explore Traditional and Modern Poems. | Sep 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Haiku. | Aug 22, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Haiku (or hokku). | Nov 10, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 11, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Haiku. | Oct 08, 2018 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Nov 07, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 27, 2017 | ||
| Article revised, with a haiku by Bashō added. | Oct 27, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Haiku. | Mar 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Haiku: Poetic Form. | Mar 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Gallery of Art, Washington - Biography of Ito Jakuchu. | Jul 18, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cedar Gallery - Haiku, Tanka and Senryū. | Sep 18, 2012 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 22, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Web Communications - "History of Haiku" by Ryu Yotsuya. | Feb 05, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |