Sessantasei haiku

04.12.2025

No other literary form can, better than the haiku, capture the Japanese sensibility in all its uniqueness. The haiku—poetry of extreme concision, bare yet always concrete—manages, with its mere seventeen syllables (5–7–5), to let us glimpse the poet’s experience.

You’ll find 66 of them in the small book by Yosa Buson, edited by Peter Otiv Norton, with poetic revision by Elena Pozzi.

Here is one we would like to share with you, perfect for reflecting on Katsumi Nakai’s kite, on view in our gallery through January 30.

Yosa Buson, Sessantasei haiku, La vita felice, 2025