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Haiku
Inside message: "Season's Greetings."
Contains five each of the folliwng notecard: Nomura Yoshimitsu's Snowy Night, Yoshimoto Gess?'s Sparrows and Bamboo, c. 1930s, Kawase Hasui's Seven Miles from Nakayma in Hida District, 1924, And? Hiroshige's Fujikawa, #38 from Fifty-Three Stages of the T?kaid? (Upright T?kaid?), 1855
Printed on recycled paper with soy-based inks
20 assorted 5 x 7" holiday cards in a decorative box.
The roots of Japanese haiku reach back over a thousand years. The timeless appeal of this understated poetic form may be the human desire to capture one's impressions of a fleeting moment. In the poem as in life, there is a pause, a shift, in which the poet celebrates sensory awareness of the season, perhaps suggested by the joyful song of a sparrow or the soft fall of snow on bamboo. Such seasonal allusions emphasize the essence of haiku: nature and its ephemeral beauty. Each of the poems in this boxed notecard assortment is rendered in Japanese calligraphy, a transliteration, and a translation. The prints reproduced were drawn from the extensive collections of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.