Read By: Howard Norman

<p><em>Howard Norman on his selection:</em></p> <p>I read two diary entries by the iconic haiku master, Masaoka Shiki, which I translated with Kazumi Tanaka while in Japan in 2007. Shiki was often confined by his lifelong illness to his bed; a recurring image is a parade of the tops of black umbrellas seen just over the top of a wall.</p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/masaoka-shiki-selected-poems/9780231110914"> <em>Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems</em></a>, trans. Burton Watson</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0</span></p>