Editing Haiku (section)

===Shimoi===
{{Main|Harukichi Shimoi}}
The Japanese-Italian translator and poet [[Harukichi Shimoi]] introduced haiku to Italy in the 1920s, through his work with the magazine Sakura as well as his close personal relationships within the Italian literati. Two notable influences are the haiku of his close friend [[Gabriele d'Annunzio]], and to a lesser extent, those of [[Ezra Pound]], to whom he was introduced in the early 1930s.<ref>Livio Loi, A Flower With Many Stems: Tradition and Innovation in the Poetry of Sandro Penna [https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=5299&context=theses]</ref> An early example of his work appears in the 1919 novella ''La guerra italiana vista da un giapponese'', which features a haiku by the Japanese feminist poet [[Yosano Akiko]]:

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''{{lang|it|L'autunno giovane è come un salone della Reggia,
}}''
''{{lang|it|perchè in esso gli alberi, gli uccelli, i fiori e tutte le altre cose
}}''
''{{lang|it|sono placcati di oro}}''
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The young autumn is like a salon in the palace,
for in it the trees, the birds, the flowers and all other things
are plated with gold.}}