Winter light
touches the Great Buddha
then the hills
Daughter of Takahama Kyoshi, Tatsuko Hoshino was a haiku poet of the Shōwa period (1926-1989), columnist and haiku selector for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. She is also placed as one of the “4 Ts” of Japanese female haiku poets, the other three being Mitsuhashi Takajo, Nakamura Teijo, and Hashimoto Takako.
Poem by Tatsuko Hoshino https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/hoshino-tsubaki.html
Picture by Jonathan Knepper https://unsplash.com/@jknepp
This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.
You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
Submission deadline: 17th January 2018