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Japanese Haiku

Famous Japanese haiku poems made into haiku-comics.

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"A great way to teach and learn haiku" - George O'Hawkin.

Old Pond Comics is a cartoon featuring the adventures of two frogs in a pond: Master Kawazu and his young apprentice Kaeru who wants to learn haiku.

The title of the cartoon is inspired by a famous poem by Basho:

        The old pond;
        A frog jumps in —
        The sound of the water.

Matsuo Basho (tr. by R.H. Blyth)

After meeting haiku poet Basho, "Kawazu The Frog" becomes "Master Kawazu" and opens a haiku school in the pond.

Learning haiku is fun with Old Pond Comics. Start reading »

As seen in Geist, Ricepaper, The Bulletin, The Comics Decoder, Haiku Canada Newsletter, Frogpond, Troutswirl, Haidan, Lighting the Global Lantern.

Find out what happens when a cartoonist is invited to a haiku conference...

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