Such observations heighten my appreciation of haiku poems about the transition from summer to autumn. A piece by Suiha Watanabe (1882-1946) goes to the effect, “A whiff of autumn wind/ Ruffles ...

If a poem ends with the poet ... We get the moment of “ah-ness” in the haiku, “On a leafless bough/ A crow is perched/ The Autumn dusk.” As Shakespeare was surrounded by sonneteers ...

Keene credited Shiki with reviving and modernizing classical haiku and tanka poetry, which were in decline ... of Japanese travel long distances to see the red autumn leaves; but poets hardly ...