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 ...

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 ...