tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14197491338134274382011-04-21T14:28:33.427-07:00The World Haiku Club follows different lines of developing senryu from other non-Japanese schools of thought. It bases itself firmly on Japanese tradition and seeks new possibilities in the rest of the world.ATHENAEUMnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1419749133813427438.post-68431875972373331962007-01-09T19:34:00.001-08:002007-01-09T19:37:50.658-08:00

EDITOR'S WELCOME In the last issue of World Haiku Review, a new experiment pursued at the World Haiku Club in its WHCsenryu, concerning the rethinking of senryu was explained. In this issue we continue to see some of the results of this experiment. The following paragraph from the explanation is repeated here to remind the reader of the features of WHCsenryu: "The main characteristics of

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OKASHIMI (humour) is the most important of all characteristics of modern Japanese senryu (i.e. after Meiji: 1868 onwards). So much so that if one seeks OKASHIMI one cannot go too wrong in senryu. Needless to say, the better OKASHIMI, the better senryu.The usual characterisation derived from the erroneous distinction between nature (haiku) and human (senryu) is thus not only a gross

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