11/14/2005

Shahai Haiga Illustrated poem

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Illustrated Poems

They come under many different names now,
in Japan and outside of Japan.

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Photo + Haiku ... Shahai 写俳

CLICK for more shahai photos


Some friends have asked me about haiku and photos, usually now called
Photo Haiku in the English language.


Haiga  俳画  are of course the ones painted by hand, where haiku and picture usually are drawn at the same time, when you can consider where to place each ... and usually the painter and the poet are of course one and the same person.
GA 画 means painting, drawing.

When I take a photo, I usually aim with the full frame to make a picture that is somehow complete in itself. Any text within would destroy this impression, so I started to write my text beside or above or below a photo. To enhance the unity of the work, I then make a frame with a color that should still more enhance the situation I want to express with both the photo and the haiku combined.

Many photo haiku I have seen with the text overlayed have one problem for me: The text is usually so small that it is hard to read. But it must be small so as not to distract too much of the photo. Or the text covers an important part of the picture.

Now the Japanese are sort of copying this Photo Haiku Concept and the new product is called

Sha-Hai

sha .. from shashin, photo 写真
hai, you guess, from Haiku 俳句

Sometimes it is also called haisha 俳写,
but that reading reminds many of a dentist ha-isha 歯医者


Since the spread of handy telephones with cameras, it is even more convenient to take a snapshot while you are going for a haiku walk. And post it while you are still out there on your walk.
Japanese shahai blogs are spreading like mushrooms.

The English term "photo-haiga" seems problematic, since in Japanese that would be
photo-haiku-painting フォト俳画.
photo haiku seems to fit better to the genre.



A painting is a different thing from a photo,
in the English language and in the Japanese language
different terms are used.


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When composing a Photo-Haiku

it is best if the author of the photo and the poem is one and the same person.

You can start with a haiku and find a suitable photo for it.
You can start with a photo and try to compose a haiku for it.

The photo and haiku can closely match each other.
The photo and haiku can be of completely different subjects, but together give rise to a new short story.

If your photo definitely expresses the season, you might do without a kigo in your haiku.

If you quote a poem you find somewhere online or use a photo you find online, you should try and get permission of the original author to use his work.
The least you should do is give credit to the photografer/poet and quote the page from where you took that part of your composition.

Two authors (or more) are needed for a collaboration.
haiga koraboreeshon 俳画コラボレーション
Sometimes, you will publish the work under your own name, so make sure all the sources you used are properly credited.




source : Shanghai Explorer
水夫清画伯との俳画コラボレーション


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The latest from NHK in Japan, for haiku, senryu and other short poems with the same rhythm
Five Seven Five with a Photo

NHK Foto Go Shichi Go

NHK is running an 8 series programm from November 2007 about
Foto Go Shichi Go / Photo 5 7 5

Photographer Itami Koji is giving advise.
板見 浩史(いたみ こうじ)

CLICK for the NHK link Japanese only.

This is different from SHA HAI (haiku), in as much as it includes all forms of short poetry with the rhythm of five seven five (go shichi go). It is becoming quite popular now, since everyone has a cellphone with camera and can send his composition to his BLOG from everywhere in Japan.

five seven five is the rhythm of the Japanese soul,
as one Japanese poet has put it.


For more information, read
NHK Haiku, My Introduction



ENJOY !
フォト 五七五 foto 5 7 5 gallery with photos and poems, like a walk through an everyday of Japan ...
Just click on any photo to see more !

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I add some LINKs to Japanese SHAHAI pages


写俳日記
http://shahai.exblog.jp/


写俳も楽しいものですね。♪
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/kyotocity/diary/200511100000/#comment


quite neon…
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hai/ten/syahai-popona001.htm


klick on any of these clickables
http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~HAIKU/wakwakf/ksyahaif.htm


Click on a photo to see the haiku above the photo and listen to music
Oboke gorge in Japan
http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~musasi/oboke.htm


Shahai Gallery
http://www.fujicom.co.jp/salon/circle/c_syahai.html


again with music
http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~musasi/index.htm


a book about HAI SHA

http://www.50pa.com/haisya.html



There are about 500 hits when googeling with 写俳。
So I give up for now. (November 2005)


google with 写俳 NOW !
about 25,800 for 写俳, November 2007

and 5,070,000 hits in June 2012


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HAIGA 俳画


Should we pin "traditional Japanese haiga" versus
"modern haiga" including all other forms in English ?


How about the many illustrations generated by computers which are not photos?
And the many poems which are not haiku but included in an illustration?

The debate outside Japan goes on and on, including,
again, the definitions for haiku itself
and the inclusion of senryu, waka, tanka and other kinds of text within an illustration.

. WKD : Trying to define HAIKU ... .



- quote
A Brief History of Haiga
The form of poem-painting called haiga has been a medium of visual expression almost since the emergence of haiku poetry. We have no direct evidence of haiga’s first occurrence, but because a great number of haiku represent visual images, and also considering that poems and images in Japan were created with the same brush and ink, it must have been a natural step to add paintings to haiku. However, they are two very distinct forms of expression, with different capabilities and potentials, leading to a number of interesting questions. How did Japanese masters reconcile or play upon these differences? Most important, how did the addition of visual images reinforce, add to, or change the meanings of the poems?

Nonoguchi (Hinaya) Ryuho (1595–1669) is sometimes cited as the originator of haiga, in part because he inscribed upon one of his later scrolls that around the age of sixty he began a new practice of painting; whether or not he specifically meant haiga is not clear. His works, however, are not typical haiga because he usually adds considerably more text than just the haiku poem, and his calligraphy is not often visually integrated with the image.

Haiga, like haiku itself, became a major form of artistic expression with Matsuo Basho (1644–1694). His modest paintings do not seek to impress viewers with technical prowess, bright colors, or bold brushwork, but they set the tone for most haiga that was to follow. The most important later poet-artist was Yosa Buson (1716–1784) who was a master painter. Some of his scrolls go beyond the simplicity and modesty established by Basho, turning haiga into a more purely painterly medium. This led to two consequences. First, haiga became a form of art that was enjoyed by a larger audience than before. Second, haiga developed into a genre that could be practiced by professional artists, whether or not they were themselves poets. Nevertheless, haiku masters continued to add images to their poems, often in the most seemingly artless manner, and therefore we may see after the time of Buson two main streams of haiga: those by painters and those by poets. Haiga made jointly by a painter and a poet also became common, although the most unified works were usually created by a single person.

Certain features distinguish haiga from other forms of Japanese painting. First is visual simplicity. Although this simplicity may be less notable in the haiga of professional painters than in those by poets, it is still clear that the images tend to have more limited motifs, fewer brushstrokes, less detail, and more empty space than most other Japanese paintings. Second, the brushwork in haiga tends to be informal and modest, rather than precise and polished. Third, when colors are used, they are usually soft and unobtrusive instead of bright and bold. Finally, the calligraphy of the poem is almost always a prominent feature of the composition, completing the visual design rather than merely adding to it.

Haiga is still a young art in the West, but the principles established in Japan offer a good background for further experimentation and development. It will be fascinating to see how this art evolves in its new home.
source : Stephen Addiss, 2003

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たのしい俳画入門―古典技法から現代俳画まで
from traditional haiga to modern haiga
by
Shiraiwa Yoshikata 白岩義賢


Haiga kyookai 俳画協会 Haiga Association
俳画とは...what is a haiga?

source : www.haiga.com/
They feature exhibitions with "gendai haiga".

haiga in English
In haiga there are no difficult rules to be observed, but what is characteristic of them is the use of ink and brush, for depiction in lines and utterance through empty spaces.
by Sekiho Yabumoto sensei
http://www.haiga.com/english/EN_index.html



gendai haiga kyookai 現代俳画協会
sensei is Sakanoshita Takeshi 坂下毅
大阪市淀川区新高4-6-6
??? this needs to be verified


gendai haiga 現代俳画 "modern Haiga" in Japan
It does not seem to include "shahai" photos, since this has become a genre of its own in Japan.
. . . CLICK here for Photos !



haiga saijiki 俳画歳時記 saijiki with haiga





furusato haiga ふるさと俳画
haiga from the homeland / heartland



source : Hollywood-Miyuki
Hikida Shigeaki : Hohoemi Jizo
ほほえみ地蔵 Smiling Jizo


. Furusato and Haiku .


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haiku with illustrations 俳句 イラスト
illustrations with haiku
illustrated haiku


illustrations with short poems
illustrations with text and poems
illustrations with free verse

visual haiku / visual poem


Click for more examples !


all and more are possible in English naming attempts.


As an artist,
be free to create what comes to your muse.


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Nioizuke 匂い付け... leave a whiff to smell
but do not show the thing that produces the smell ...

Advise to go with the haiga by Buson, father of the Haiga!


CLICK for more photos


Haiga: A Definition
~ Ray Rasmussen
http://raysweb.net/haiku/pages/haiga-definition.html



Haiga Online Dot Com


Of all the contributions to world art to have come from the Japanese, haiga is perhaps the most unique. It is, by definition, a combination of visual and verbal elements which work in ensemble to create an aesthetic experience quite distinct from either element taken by itself.

Read all 20 pages here
Jim Kacian
"Looking and Seeing: How Haiga Works"


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Haiga is haiku painting. REEDS on Haiga

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yooga Yōga (洋画) Yoga
literally "Western-style paintings"

a term used to describe paintings by Japanese artists that have been made in accordance with Western (European) traditional conventions, techniques and materials. The term was coined in the Meiji period, to distinguish such works from indigenous traditional Japanese paintings, or Nihonga (日本画, nihonga).
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !



Exhibition Shiki and Art 正岡子規と美術


正岡子規《蔓草と鶏頭》1901年頃

Exhibition, Shiki and Art

Masaoka Shiki tried his own hand at yooga painting.
source : ponsan822


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Gabi on haiga ...

question from a friend
Why do you write a haiku that is a close description, a duplicate of what the photograph is saying?

answer
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for me it works this way

If I read the story of Hansel and Gretel, for example, I expect the illustration of an old witch in a gingerbread home, not an elf dancing in moonshine.

If I see a photo that shows just what the haiku put in words, then I am happy (because a haiku for me is a snapshot in words) and I can now SEE the words were well choosen.

Nature presents us with a vista and we can capture it with words and as illustration. If both are rather similar, well, then both are well done!

If I had a haiku of an autumn lake in late sunshine with a photo for example of an airplain in the blue sky ... that would not work for me.

If we go on a ginko, a haiku walk, everyone sees the same landscape, but you would be surprized how many different haiku are written about it. Each is quite unique and shows the observand eye of each individual to a wide variety of objects in nature that could be used as a theme for a haiku of this moment.


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. Etegami 絵手紙
Postcards with paintings and text
 


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Computer-generated haiku illustrations
computer graphics and haiku




This one is also on our Fort Worth Haiku Society t-shirt



minimalist approach


Cliff has produced quite a lot of computer-generated haiku with illustrations.
Some are like a collage of various images.



origami frogs
no two alike --
amateur folder



Thank you, Cliff!

by Kawazu Cliff T. Roberts

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More combinations of naming poetry, text and illustrations as they come up.

Please let me know your favorite !

Haiga 俳画 is a well-defined genre in Japan.
You can learn it if you are blessed with a good teacher.

If you want to depart from the basics, by all means.

As an artist,
be free to create what comes to your muse.



If it does not fit any category in your language,
just call it in a general way
"text (or poem) with illustration".



source : yaura_jap

HAIKU: Illustrated poems
Yukki Yaura
Suekichi Book


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11 comments:

Gabi Greve said...

Gabi,

Thanks for sharing your photo haiku and related genres website.

It is truly amazing how many things you are involved in, and how well you do them all.
J.

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Gabi Greve said...

Dear Gabi San,
Thank you for giving a link to Sha Hai- photo and haiku nor narration, which somone said, about HAIGA-

Shahai in Indian language is helper, supporter or ally. I have really enjoyed the photos- beautiful nature- but the language of the haiku- Japanese- I could not read. However, nice of you to have introduced to this.

Sincerely,
Aju M, India

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/simply_haiku/message/15057?l=1

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I am glad you liked it anyway, Aju san!
GABI

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Anonymous said...

Hi Gabi,
If nothing else, your message here and the links you gave have helped me inch closer to the decision to purchase a digital camera.

Who knows ... after my book comes out, I might begin a new hobby ...

A friend from Holland

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting this, Gabi. Shahai as you do it, poem next to the image rather than in it, seems to be what I've been calling 'photo haiku'--I think it may be Michael Dylan Welch's term.
I prefer it to photo haiga because the relationship between image and text is more open and not a scripted as photo haiga seem to be so often.
L.

Anonymous said...

That was indeed interesting, Gabi. Thanks!
P.

caleb-hiku-collection said...

inglisDear gabi,
Thank you for posting these wonderful information about shahai. We will try and see how well we can advance..
Sincerely,
Caleb.

Gabi Greve said...

Good Morning Gabi –
Thanks for the links you sent along about haiga … or shahai, as you say. I’ve never seen that term used but I like the sound of it over “photo-haiku”. As with all facets of our chosen genre, it is a lot more complicated than I thought, such as the haiku inside or outside the image. What you have given me is a door to approach this work in a different way. I will check out all the links in your wonderful entry. What I like is the sense of expansion it gives for my study of haiku, as well as haibun – and I do think we eventually feel a need for it. Or at least for me, it feels like a natural evolving expansion.
Thanks again.
o o o o o

You are most welcome, my friend, and all the best with your haiku/haiga life!
Gabi

Gabi Greve - WKD said...

Masaoka Shiki

古池に蛙とびこむ俳画哉
furu ike ni kawazu tobikomu haiga kana

into the old pond
a frog has jumped
on a haiga painting . . .

The cut marker KANA is at the end of line 3.
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Shiki and the Old Pond

Gabi Greve said...

Foto Tanka フォト短歌

http://sports.geocities.jp/takajun3232/siika21.html

http://www.utalover.com/

and many more, google with
フォト短歌

Gabi Greve said...

短歌画 tanka and "illustrations"

Gabi Greve said...

WHChaikumultimedia / WHR August 2001
Photo-haiku

In 1999 Mitty (Mitsugu) Abe developed the first interactive website for photographers and haiku poets to do something new and collaborate with their arts: “Overcoming Time and Distance”. Along with others around the world, WHC members have enjoyed Mitty’s sites by writing haiku for a wide variety of photographs of nature, people and places. Recently Mitty created Beacons, a web site in which people submit photos and haiku about the seasons related to the places where they live.
Already this site enjoys submissions from the U.S., Canada, UK, Japan and Italy.
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https://whrarchives.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/photo-haiku/
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