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Sacred Texts  Japan 

Japanese Haiku

by Peter Beilenson

[1955]


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This is a short collection of a couple of hundred Japanese Haiku. This was printed by the art book small press, Peter Pauper. In the original each haiku is accompanied by one of 59 Japanese seals. These seals are reproduced here.

The divisions in the body of the text are arbitrary and were not in the original book.


Title Page
A Note On Japanese Haiku
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6