Masaaki Kimura: 4 books

Living is hard anywhere in the world no matter how rich or poor you may be. If you are fortunate enough to say your life is easy, be careful. You might have the ugliest face that only you are not aware of.When everything gets too hard, just rest. And read one of these poems.

One hundred jewel-like short poems with one hundred simple abstract paintings. Some poems are so pared that the bodies are even shorter than the titles. Others consist of several broken words and sentences, which allows the readers’ philosophy to flow with imagination. And all the poems are written...

This book of short poems consists of 100 haiku-like poems. Haiku is a Japanese poetry style characterized by conciseness and full imagination. Haiku has some rules, but I wildly freed myself from any kind of restrictions and created a new minimalistic style.

I have been experimenting an unfettered short style on poems without rhymes or other rules for about half a century. In the course of trial and error, I came up the an idea of "less is more". I have tried traditional Japanese short poem forms such as haiku, tanka, and senryu. But ultimately I found...