Ikuyo Yoshimura was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1944. She graduated from the English Literature Department of Doshisha University, and received her M.A. from Aichigakuin University. She is an Associate Professor of English at Asahi University and lives in Gifu City with her family. Ikuyo started to write poems during her college years and studied haiku under Kaneko Tohta. In 1987, she founded an English-Japanese haiku group, Evergreen. She is a contributor to Gin'yu and Kaitei, and a member of the Modern Haiku Association. Ikuyo is the recipient of several haiku awards, including the Aichi Prefecture Prize, the Special Merit Book Award given by Australia Day Council, and the Haiku Four Seasons Award given by Newsweek. Ikuyo's haiku have appeared in several collections, including: Small Pictures (1966), At the Riverside (1990), Linked Poems by College Students (1995), Spring Thunder (1996), Cats in Love (2000), Honeysuckle (2000), Haiku Troubadours 2000 (2000), etc. Other publications include the book, The Life of R.H.Blyth (1996); and numerous articles on haiku in English. article: "haiku with humour" - previously unpublished
biography
contests & awards
chapbooks, books, collections, & anthologies
haiku: "seashore at dawn" - Honeysuckle (August 2000)
haiku: "jazz concert" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku: "a shadow of an airship" - Poetry Nippon (December, 2000)
haiku: "thunder in the distance" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 68 (1990)
haiku: "cultivator" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 55 (1990)
haiku: "bowing slightly" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 36 (1990)
haiku (in haiga): "cats in love" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 41 (1990)
haiku: "moonlit night" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku: "shiny icicles" - Newsweek Japan: Haiku Anthology, ed. 85 (1990)
haiku: "weeding the garden" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku: "spring nearby" - Spring Thunder (1996)
haiku (in haiga): "manjushaka swallows" - Honeysuckle (August 2000)
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