User talk:Koast

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Kigo and haiku

The kigo article is something that I want to eventually nominate and get accepted as a Featured article. After a flurry of work on it, I kind of got burned out on it, but I need to get back to working on it. I've decided that I want to cut down on the number of example kigo in the article, but still keeping something close to a Top 10 list of kigo in the article. Towards that purpose, I've already created the List of kigo article (mirroring the organization on the Japanese-language Wikipedia). I also hope to eventually turn that list into a Featured list.

For the haiku article, I have found some interesting info on the Imagists on the internet, and I think that they deserve a short section of their own as an early experiment in English-language haiku, as well as for the influence of haiku and other Japanese poetry on Western poetry. Gary Snyder and the Beats should also get their own small section. ^Blank ^Verse 08:02, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have Donald Keene's "Dawn to the West", which has some good basic coverage of the early post-Shiki era for haiku, tanka, and free-verse Japanese poets, and I should try to incorporate some of that into the haiku and waka articles. Information on any post-WW II Japanese poetry in very sparse on the Wikipedia, with only the Tawara Machi article one of the few that I can think of at the moment.

There are still quite a few important Japanese poets who do not yet have articles (there wasn't even a Buson article when I first started editing the Wikipedia). The pre-Basho developments also need to be covered better as well. The renga article should also get more info on where Basho and Buson fit in to that topic. ^Blank ^Verse 09:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]