So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami

Nancy Sato; Hiroaki Sato

doi:10.1017/S1557466013034438

So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

Nancy Sato and

Hiroaki Sato

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The haiku has been a universal poetic form for more than half a century now. The second UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjōld expressed his private thoughts in it; the founding executive director of the UN Population Fund Rafael Salas recorded his daily observations through it; so does the current President of the European Council Herman Achille Van Rompuy.

Last year the Belgrade-born physician- filmmaker Dimitar Anakiev compiled a large anthology of haiku by writers from 48 countries on war and other forms of violence.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 29 , July 2013 , e5

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