Haiku Danmark

It is a very unfortunate fact that many definitions of haiku you’ll find on the Internet, or even in serious books & anthologies, start off by saying that it is a Japanese poetic form in three lines with syllables distributed 5-7-5, line by line. The majority of existing haiku-writers since Santoka (1882-1940) changed the concept…

My father and mother travelled a lot. They had not had the possibility in their youth. In the 30thies there was a lack of money and during the Second World War it was excluded. They were in Japan one year before me. As I packed my suitcase my mother strongly recommended me to take the…

was very young when I visited Japan for the first time. It was in 1961. I  was on board a Danish ship as a wireless-operator, and we were bound Moji in the southern part of Japan. I found everything so interesting and beautiful  and was fascinated and strongly  moved by Japan, and I loved the…