In 1901, poet Akiko Yosano's 'Midaregami' ('Tangled Hair') was published. This collection of 399 sensual, explicit tanka and haiku poems broke with the formal traditions set down centuries before ...

Avant-guard poet Tota Kaneko, a leader in the postwar haiku world, passed away from acute respiratory distress syndrome at a hospital in Kumagaya, Sai ...