Ryu YOTSUYA (1958 - ) was born in Sapporo, Japan, and lives in Tokyo now. He began to write haiku in 1972. From 1974 to 1986, he contributed his works to Taka (Hawk), a monthly haiku magazine. In 1987, he published his first haiku collection Jiai (Charity), and commenced publishing a literary magazine Mushimegane (Loupe) with his wife Niji Fuyuno. In 1997, they set up an Internet site of Mushimegane. Ryu has published many critiques about haiku, contemporary art, and movies. His articles about Ippekiro Nakatsuka (1887-1946), originator of freestyle haiku, and about Natsuyuki Nakanishi (1935 - ), major contemporary artist, were favorably received. He studied French literature in the university and wrote a graduation thesis about Guillaume Apollinaire. He has written articles in French, such as the preface to Haïku sans frontières: une anthologie mondiale (Haiku without border: a worldwide anthology), Voir les haikus (Watching haiku), etc. Jiai (Charity); haiku collection; published by Kumo Shuppan-sha; 1987 Main essays are as follows: Haiku Essays (in Japanese) Iijima Haruko Sakuhin no Gendai-teki Igi (Significance of Haruko Iijima’s haiku in our time); Taka (Hawk), 1979 Watanabe Hakusen to Sono Jidai (Hakusen Watanabe and the age when he lived); Gendai Haiku (Modern Haiku), 1983 Nakatsuka Ippekiro no Zentai-zo (Total Image of Ippekiro Nakatsuka), Mushimegane (loupe), 1988~89 Sannin no Naname no Kao – Takano Suju (Three Oblique Faces – Suju Takano); Haiku Kenkyu (Study of Haiku), 1992 Sekai no Haiku, Nippon no Haiku (World Haiku, Japanese Haiku); Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper, 2000 Haiku Essay (in French) Voir les haïkus (Watching haiku); Poésie sur Seine (Poetry on Seine), 2001 article: "harmony" - previously unpublished feature: "the place in the sky" article: "Humor and Kusatao's Haiku (eng)" - previously unpublished
biography
chapbooks, books, collections, & anthologies
Tomizawa Kakio (Kakio Tomizawa);critique about a haikuists; published by Kagyu-sha, 1995
Gendai Haiku no Seiei (The Pick of Contemporary Haiku); haiku anthology; published by Bokuyo-sha; 1986
Gendai Haiku Shusei (Collection of Contemporary Haiku Works); haiku anthology; published by Rippu-shobo; 1996newspaper, magazine, & journal appearances
haiku (in haiga): "barn opening"
haiku: "a New Year's crow"
haiku: "we laugh"
haiku: "an empty room"
haiku: "a beaten roach"
haiku: "a man's shadow"
haiku (in haiga): "little mother spider"
haiku: "Dali's blue"
haiku: "the Yellow River"
haiku: "fingertips"
haiku: "the frightening blue"
haiku: "tearing the fog"
haiku: "waterfall in spring"
haiku (in haiga): "that lily"
article: "Humor and Kusatao's Haiku (jpn)" - previously unpublished
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