Editing Haiku (section)

===Yasuda===
{{Main|Kenneth Yasuda}}

The Japanese-American scholar and translator [[Kenneth Yasuda]] published ''The Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples'' in 1957. The book includes both translations from Japanese and original poems of his own in English, which had previously appeared in his book titled ''A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems together with Original Haiku''. In these books Yasuda presented a critical theory about haiku, to which he added comments on haiku poetry by early 20th-century poets and critics. His translations apply a 5–7–5 syllable count in English, with the first and third lines end-rhymed. Yasuda considered that haiku translated into English should utilize all of the poetic resources of the language.<ref>Yasuda, Kenneth, Introduction 'The Japanese Haiku' Charles Tuttle Co Rutland 1957 {{ISBN|0804810966}}</ref> Yasuda's theory also includes the concept of a "haiku moment"  based in personal experience, and provides the motive for writing a haiku: {{"'}}an aesthetic moment' of a timeless feeling of enlightened harmony as the poet's nature and the environment are unified".<ref>Otsuiji(Seiki Osuga) Otsuji Hairon-shu 'Otsuiji's Collected Essays on Haiku Theory' ed.Toyo Yoshida, 5th edn Tokyo, Kaede Shobo 1947</ref> This notion of the haiku moment has resonated with haiku writers in English, even though the notion is not widely promoted in Japanese haiku.{{NoteTag|See however, 'Shiki's Haiku Moments for Us Today'.<ref>Hirai, Masako ed.Now to be! Shiki's Haiku Moments for Us Today' (Ima, ikuru!Shiki no sekai) U-Time Publishing, 2003 {{ISBN|4860100409}} [http://terebess.hu/english/haiku/shiki.html]</ref>}}