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Kawazu, a frog sitting in a pond, meets Basho and inspires him to write his most famous haiku poem by jumping in the water. |
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Kaeru, a young frog, leaves his pond in search of a haiku teacher. He visits different schools and finally finds the perfect haiku teacher, Master Kawazu, sitting in a pond. |
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In order to become Master Kawazu's apprentice, Kaeru must participate in National Haiku Writing Month and write one haiku per day for a month. Lucky we're in February! |
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Kaeru becomes Master Kawazu's apprentice and works from 5 to 7... to 5! He quickly gets tired of counting syllables for his master. |
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Kaeru receives his first the haiku lessons and realizes writing a haiku is more difficult than it looks. |
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In order to write a good haiku, you must read good haiku. Kaeru reads the work of Japanese haiku poets. |
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To reward his student, Master Kawazu takes him cherry blossom viewing. |
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Master Kawazu and Kaeru attend the Old Pond haiku conference (where Kaeru meets one of his haiku idols), Haiku North America (HNA) and Haiku Canada. |
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Once again, Kaeru must challenge himself and write one haiku a day for a month. And, to make things more difficult, 2012 is a leap year which means Kaeru must write 29 haiku in 29 days! |
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One more time, Kaeru wrote one haiku a day for a month in August 2012. Just for fun. |
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For the third year, Kaeru participates in NaHaiWriMo in February 2013 and writes one haiku a day for a month. |
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