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Author: Yoshii The Bushido Poet

Yoshii the Bushido Poet is a Ninth-level Haiku master who hails from the Ishikawa Prefecture on Japan's "west coast" where his family - descendants of a long line of daimyo poets - still eke out a living salvaging debris from shipwrecks in the Sea of Japan.
Posted onAugust 29, 2012Arts & Architecture

Haiku Wednesday

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet137 Comments on Haiku Wednesday

A feather-shorn crow

Cackle-song from a dead branch

November rain fall

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Posted onMay 15, 2012May 15, 2012Arts & Architecture

Tuesday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet11 Comments on Tuesday Haiku

A noisy, cold wind

Whistles through the jail windows

A lonely monkey

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Posted onMay 2, 2012Arts & Architecture

Wednesday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet6 Comments on Wednesday Haiku

A cold wind blusters

Trash skips and flutters ahead

Storm drains to ocean

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Posted onApril 19, 2012April 19, 2012Arts & Architecture

Thursday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet10 Comments on Thursday Haiku

A broken-down bus 

Wop-wops the crackled asphalt

The mossy trees groan 

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Posted onApril 3, 2012April 3, 2012Arts & Architecture

Tuesday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet25 Comments on Tuesday Haiku

Crows on a wire caw

New plumage boldly flaunted 

An icy, false dawn

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Posted onMarch 22, 2012Arts & Architecture

Thursday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet21 Comments on Thursday Haiku

Bronze bells peal loudly

A green vine climbs the brick wall

Three monkeys chatter

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Posted onMay 14, 2011Arts & Architecture

Saturday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet3 Comments on Saturday Haiku

A small drum beats time

Acid rain falls in the square

A beggar’s false smile

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Posted onDecember 6, 2010December 6, 2010Arts & Architecture

Monday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet5 Comments on Monday Haiku

A cold wind whistles

Crimson leaves flutter downward

A lone coyote

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Posted onJuly 23, 2010Arts & Architecture

Friday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet1 Comment on Friday Haiku

A purple crab crawls

Shafts of broken sunlight fade

A hungry child weeps

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Posted onJune 7, 2010Arts & Architecture

Monday Haiku

by Yoshii The Bushido Poet1 Comment on Monday Haiku

The days grow longer

But the dusk reaches forward

Paper snowflakes fall

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