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The origins of haiku can be traced back as far as the 9th century. Haiku is more than a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing something deeper, like the very nature of existence.

History and Structure of Haiku Poems
A haiku poem consists of three lines, with the first and last lines having 5 moras, and the middle line having 7. A mora is a sound unit, much like a syllable, but is not identical to it. Since the moras do not translate well into English, it has been adapted to where syllables are used as moras.

Haiku started out as a popular activity during the 9th to 12th centuries in Japan called “tanka.” It was a progressive poem, where one person would write the first three lines with a 5-7-5 structure, and the next person would add to it a section with a 7-7 structure. The chain would continue in this fashion. So, if you wanted some old examples of haiku poems, you could read the first verse of a “tanka” from the 9th century.

The first verse was called a “hokku” and set the mood for the rest of the verses. Sometimes there were hundreds of verses and authors of the “hokku” were often admired for their skill. In the 19th century, the “hokku” took on a life of its own and began to be written and read as an individual poem. The word “haiku” is derived from “hokku.”

There were four master haiku poets from Japan, known as "the Great Four." They are: Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, Masaoka Shiki, and Yosa Buson. Their work is still the model for traditional haiku writing today. They were poets who wandered the countryside, experiencing life and observing nature, and spent years perfecting their craft.

Haiku Poems from the Master Traditional Poets
A review of haiku poems is an excellent way to become familiar with this form of poetry and the sensory language it uses, and gain some inspiration.

(Note: In translation, the moras won’t be the same as syllables. In Japanese, there are 5 moras in the first and third line, and 7 in the second, following the 5-7-5 structure of haiku. The rhythm has been lost in translation, as not every Japanese word has the same number of syllables, or sounds, as its English version. For example, haiku has two syllables in English. In Japanese, the translated word has three sounds.)

BY KIMIO IDA
MAY 20, 2001
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OSAKA – There was a time when parents in Osaka used to scold their kids by threatening, “I will send you to Yoshimoto!” if they were fooling around. Today, though, Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. has become Japan’s largest entertainment agency, and most parents would be happy if their children worked for it. Its tarento are now so popular that it is almost impossible to watch prime-time or late-night television without seeing one of them.

Yoshimoto Kogyo was founded nearly 100 years ago by a woman named Sei Yoshimoto, who opened a theater for rakugo comic storytellers in the precinct of Tenmangu Shrine in Osaka’s Kita Ward for her husband, Kichibei Yoshimoto. The owner of a housewares shop, Kichibei was such a big fan of theater and rakugo that Sei thought it would be good if they had their own theater.

The plan worked well, and Sei opened more theaters, hiring the entertainers as employees. The strategy ensured Yoshimoto’s success as a talent agency. Even after Kichibei’s death, Sei continued running the business with her brother Shonosuke Hayashi, laying the base of today’s Yoshimoto Kogyo.

Among various entertainments Yoshimoto Kogyo presents, a comedy theater called shin-kigeki (new comedy) became enormously popular with people in the Kansai region. Kicked off in 1959, shin-kigeki soon became established as Yoshimoto’s main feature, starring such popular actors as Kyo Hanaki and Hachiro Oka.

Shin-kigeki features slapstick and nonsense jokes, depicting the humor and pathos of ordinary life with such stage sets as a mom-and-pop restaurant or a shrine during a summer festival.

Coming home from school for lunch on Saturdays, many Osaka children ritually turned on the TV to watch the show, laughing and eating okonomiyaki or instant noodles, which debuted on the market around that time. More than four decades later, the show is still on the air at lunchtime Saturdays in Kansai.

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