Editing Haiku (section)

===Blyth===
{{Main|Reginald Horace Blyth}}
[[Reginald Horace Blyth|R. H. Blyth]] was an [[Englishman]] who lived in Japan. He produced a series of works on [[Zen]], haiku, senryū, and on other forms of [[Japanese literature|Japanese]] and Asian literature. In 1949, with the publication in Japan of the first volume of ''Haiku'', the four-volume work by Blyth, haiku were introduced to the post-war English-speaking world.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} This four-volume series (1949–52) described haiku from the pre-modern period up to and including [[Masaoka Shiki|Shiki]]. Blyth's ''History of Haiku'' (1964) in two volumes is regarded as a classical study of haiku. Today Blyth is best known as a major interpreter of haiku to English speakers.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} His works have stimulated the writing of haiku in English.