Haiku - Japanese poems of the four seasons

An essential and elegant work like a "haiku" (俳句), the shortest, best known and most practiced poetic genre in the world. In just 17 syllables, divided into three verses, it transmits a sensorial image as ephemeral as a breath and as powerful as lightning! This volume with Japanese binding contains 140 haiku in Japanese characters, accompanied by their translation and divided according to the four seasons and their kigo (季語), the "season words" that indicate the period to which a specific poem refers. The book, contained in a fun box set, is enriched by the evocative illustrations of an established Japanese artist, by the curator's precious explanatory notes and by 160 colorful stickers showing the text of the haiku.