Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear a Hat

by Hosai Ozaki, Hiroaki Sato (Translator)

Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat presents colloquial haiku and occasional essays by an eccentric and disturbed personality who spent his last lonely years at a small Buddhist temple off the coast of Shikoku.

Genres: Poetry, Japan

142 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1993

Reviews

[Ad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hosai Ozaki (1885-1926) was a free-verse haiku poet like Santoka, but in contrast to that peripatetic priest, he lived in a small temple on Shodoshima. This selection of his haiku translated by Hiroaki Sato has only one defect which costs a point: the Japanese texts in romaji have not been included.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Observant and simple haiku.

[Tyler]

Haiku. One line (not three). After reading it I walk around differently (for awhile).

[Duffy Laudick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some very beautiful poems from a very sad and lonely man.