Kuniharu Shimizu was born in Tenri, Nara, Japan (1949). He received his BFA from the University of Hawaii. While in Hawaii, a painting of his won a purchase award at Artists of Hawaii Exhibition, and became part of a permanent collection at Honolulu Academy of Arts. Kuniharu has won design awards, including the Ichiretu-kai Scholarship Foundation Logo Mark contest, 1st place and the Japan Toy Accosiation Logo Mark contest, 1st place. Kuniharu became an ordained minister of Tenrikyo Church in 1978 and has since held numerous administrative positions at Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. He is presently the vice-president of Doyusha (a section of Tenrikyo HQ which deals with various media), and a chief of Tenrikyo Internet Committee. Kuniharu is the haijinx artist-in-residence and maintains a personal homepage, "see haiku here". haiga (Bashô haiku) in feature: "the rough sea" - from see haiku here haiga (Kuniharu Shimizu haiku): "sunflowers wither" haiga (Bashô haiku): "moonflowers" - from see haiku here (available on t-shirts!) haiga (Bashô haiku): "breakfast" - from see haiku here
biography
haiga (Janice M. Bostok haiku): "a fox in daylight" - from see haiku here
haiga (Buson haiku): "a moon verse" - from see haiku here
haiga (Mark Brooks haiku): "spring rain" - from see haiku here
haiga (Connie Donleycott haiku): "country road" - from see haiku here
haiga (Carrie Etter haiku): "spring thaw" - from see haiku here
haiga (Alice Frampton haiku): "solid ivy" - from see haiku here
haiga (Claire Gallagher haiku): "fish circling" - from see haiku here
haiga (Yvonne Hardenbrook haiku): "solstice afternoon" - from see haiku here
haiga (Peggy Willis Lyles haiku): "lights out" - from see haiku here
haiga (Paul MacNeil haiku): "fallen leaves" - from see haiku here
haiga (Carmen Sterba haiku): "noise on the roof" - from see haiku here
haiga (Isaac Walls haiku): "mosquito buzz" - from see haiku here
haiga (Michael Dylan Welch haiku) in feature: "meteor shower" - from see haiku here
haiku: "late night chill"
haiga (Yu Chang haiku): "new york apartment" - from see haiku here
haiga (Martin Cohen haiku): "ocean swell" - from see haiku here
haiga (Dhugal Lindsay haiku): "the sake starts" - from see haiku here
haiga (Dhugal Lindsay haiku): "spring melancholy" - from see haiku here
haiga (Carmel C. Lively haiku): "summer lightning" - from see haiku here
haiga (Robert Scott haiku): "after the guests leave" - from see haiku here
haiga (John Crook haiku): "a calm night" - from see haiku here
haiga (George Swede haiku): "almost unseen" - from see haiku here
haiga (Serge Tomé haiku): "slowly the fly" - from see haiku here
haiga (Ikuyo Yoshiumura haiku): "cats in love" - from see haiku here
haiga (Ikuyo Yoshiumura haiku): "manjushaka swallows" - from see haiku here
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