Did you know?
- Noguchi advised American poets to "try Japanese Hokku" in 1904.
- Haiku was known as "hokku" or "haikai" until Masaoka Shiki began promoting "haiku" in 1892.
- William Butler Yeats made a poem out of three of Noguchi's haiku translations.
Haiku
Essays on haiku
- A Proposal to American Poets (1904)
- "What is the Hokku Poem"
in
Through the Torii
[first published as "Hokku" in The Academy, 13 July 1912,
and reprinted as "What Is a Hokku Poem?" in Rhythm 12 (Jan.
1913).
- See the complete issue of Rhythm 12 in the Modernist Journals Project.]
- "Again on Hokku," in Through the Torii.
English haiku
- selections from Japanese Hokkus (1920)