'Haiku' anthology from 1899 gathering hosted by Masaoka Shiki

'Haiku' anthology from 1899 gathering hosted by Masaoka Shiki

AKITA, Japan - Seiichi Hasebe reads the original handwritten anthology of 300 Japanese "haiku" poems, a collection of poems from a New Year's haiku gathering in 1899 hosted by famed poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), in Akita, northeastern Japan. He found the collection in May 2014 when sorting the belongings of Akita native poet Ishii Rogetsu. (Kyodo)

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