Tag: Ban’ya Natsuishi

• «Flying», (“Pouting Pope”) in homage to Ban’ya Natsuishi’s haiku book “Flying Pope”.

  «Flying», oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm., 2021. Thirteen years after I wrote my preface to Haiku master Ban’ya Natsuishi‘s iconic work «Flying Pope», I have decided to revisit and pay homage to the work in the form of an oil painting.   Commentary: This raw, figurative painting is a significant update (if not…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  March 27, 2021

  Adam Donaldson Powell as literary critic, Flying Pope, Pope Francis, The Plague Reaper

  Adam Donaldson Powell, Ban’ya Natsuishi, COVID-19 paintings, Flying Pope, Pope Francis, The Plague Reaper

• From the archives: previous essays on the haiku of Ban’ya Natsuishi.

  

  Adam Donaldson Powell’s preface to the haiku collection “Flying Pope”, by Ban’ya Natsuishi: A MODERN MASTER OF HAIKU PAINTS THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE. A gong sounds somewhere in the distance, and in the silence that ensues the reverberations of the collective conscience precipitate a collage of impressions that are at once familiar, and yet far beyond…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  July 19, 2018

  About writing, Ban’ya Natsuishi, Haiku, Literary criticism

  Ban’ya Natsuishi, Haiku, Literary criticism

• From the archives: literary criticism about haiku books by World Haiku Association, Geert Verbeke, Santosh Kumar and Yuko Tange.

  

  ESSAY ABOUT THE HAIKU PUBLISHED BY THE WORLD HAIKU ASSOCIATION World Haiku 2008, No. 4: a multilingual collection of contemporary haiku from around the world. (Published by Schichigatsudo Publishing, Tokyo, Japan, ISBN 978-4-87944-117-1, $15, €13, 2008, 230 pages, softcover, edited by Ban’ya Natsuishi for the World Haiku Association) This year’s edition of World Haiku (the…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  July 19, 2018

  About writing, Haiku, Literary criticism

  Ban’ya Natsuishi, Geert Verbeke, Santosh Kumar, World Haiku Association, Yukio Tante