Haiku


	Did you know? Noguchi advised American poets to "try Japanese Hokku" in 1904. Haiku was known as "hokku" or "haikai" until Masaoka Shiki began promoting "haiku" in 1892. William Butler Yeats plagiarized three of Noguchi's haiku translations.

Essays on haiku

A Proposal to American Poets (1904)
"What is the Hokku Poem" in Through the Torii [first published as "Hokku" in The Academy, 13 July 1912, and reprinted as "What Is a Hokku Poem?" in Rhythm 12 (Jan. 1913).
- See the complete issue of Rhythm 12 in the Modernist Journals Project.]
"Again on Hokku," in Through the Torii.

English haiku