Abstract
Japanese Richard Wright's Haiku: This Other World, edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener, which carries 817 haiku Wright had selected out of the four thousand haiku he composed in his final years. The title of the Japanese version is HAIKU Kono Bessekai, published in 2007. Students in Japan are of course familiar with haiku in Japanese since their childhood, introduced by teachers to the great classic haiku poets such as Basho, Buson, and Issa. However, they are usually surprised to know that quite a few European and American poets have written haiku in various foreign languages, including English. The first thing I have to do to teach English haiku in Japan is show them sample haiku. The most appropriate and important example, then, is Richard Wright's haiku because his is traditionally written, observing the basic rules: at least one season word in
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