← Masaoka ShikiSelected Tankaby Masaoka ShikiCollection of five-line poems reflecting personal emotion and natureFind on Amazon↗About the authorMasaoka ShikiPoet and critic who modernized haiku and tanka, stripping away conventionality in favor of direct observation (shasei). Despite dying young of tuberculosis, his reforms permanently shaped modern Japanese poetry.More by Masaoka ShikiA Drop of Ink→Collected HaikuHaiku collection by modernizer who refined the traditional form→Straw Sandals→Selected Haiku of Masaoka ShikiHaiku collection by poet and literary reformer→
