Kenneth Yasuda

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Kenneth Yasuda, a Japanese-American scholar and translator. Graduate of the University Of Washington and a Doctor of Literature (in Japanese literature), Tokyo University. His most well known book published 1957 is The Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples. His other books include A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems together with Original Haiku a collection of haiku and translations in English.;A Lacquer Box, translation of tanka and a translation of Minase Sangin Hyakuin,a collection of renga linked poetry. Yasuda's theory includes the concept of a "haiku moment," which he said is based in personal experience and provides the motive for writing a haiku.