Haiku. Japanese lyrics. The weaver of willow shadow... Basa, Issa, Buson, Idzen and others.

Japanese lyrical poems of Hokka (Hike) are distinguished by extreme laconicism and peculiar poetics, reflecting the life of nature and man in their adverse, indissoluble unity against the background of the cycle of seasons. Japanese lyrics fully reflects the term “postpone” - after all, far does not immediately subside a deep echo, born of a word. The ability to wake up is one of the main properties of Japanese poetry. Masters such as Basa, Buson and Issa are only a few of those whose poems are still able to excite our feelings.

in the translation of the poet, philologist and literary critic, Vera Nikolaevna Markova, unique Japanese poetic miniatures turn into aphoristic Verlibers turning into white verses.