Ryo's Profile

I have been practicing Tai-Chi Chuan for nearly 12 years and my teacher is Mr Yang Ming-Shi, the most wellknown Chinese Tai-Chi instructor in Japan.
Painting is another thing I have been doing for a long time -- First, Japanese style painting and now pastel.
Both of them are very important for my haiku writing. I'd like to mention the reasons here as often as possible.

I'm the headmaster of the LOGOS English Teaching Association in Odawara, Kanagawa
Prefecture, Japan. Logos uses, among more standard methods, English language haiku
as a teaching method. At the same time I'd like to use English language haiku as a means
of international communication as well.

It was more than 15 years ago when I started writing English language haiku, and fortu-
nately I have some haiku friends abroad with whom I've been exchanging letters for more
than 10 years: Mrs Lorrain Harr (Oregon), Mrs L.A. Davidson (New York), Mr Robert Spiess
(Wisconsin) and so on.

Here I'd like to show you some of my haiku:

standing on end
among the fallen leaves
a tiny acorn

( given the 1st prize in the Mainichi Daily News
annual English language haiku contest )

stillness
piles
on the fallen leaves

heat
lingering
to the end of a twig

( given the 1st prize in the International Haiku
Contest in New Zealand )

At Logos we regularly have Haiku Writing Circle, and we make it a rule to write
"haiku prose". Let me show you one of my own haiku prose in LOGOS HAIKU CIRCLE.

to Ryo's Haiku Square (Ignore Japanese parts please)