Aug. 19 is written as 8.19 which is read as ha (8) i (1) ku (9). Therefore Aug. 19 is Day of Haiku (俳句). Do you know Haiku? Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 sounds of 5-7-5 with a seasonal word in it. This is the world shortest poem. Poet of haiku is called haijin (俳人).
Three famous haijin of the Edo period are Matsuo Basho(松尾芭蕉：1644-1694), Yosano Buson(与謝蕪村：1716-1783), and Kobayashi Issa(小林一茶：1763-1827). In Meiji era Masaoka Shiki(正岡子規：1867-1902) established the haiku as modern literature.
The world-best known haiku must be the one of Basho's. That is: Furuike ya (古池や：Old pond), kawazu tobikomu(蛙飛び込む: a frog leaps in), mizu no oto(水の音: water's sound).
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