Masaya Saito

Masaya Saito's Japanese-language haiku have appeared widely, and in 2007 he won the Asahi Haiku Shinjin Award for his sequence of fifty haiku, Gassh . His English haiku have been published in Ash (TELS Press, 1988) and Snow Bones (Isobar Press, 2016), and in the anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013), while his English translations of Japanese haiku appear in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature (Columbia UP, 2005). In 2023 he published his...See more

Masaya Saito's Japanese-language haiku have appeared widely, and in 2007 he won the Asahi Haiku Shinjin Award for his sequence of fifty haiku, Gassh . His English haiku have been published in Ash (TELS Press, 1988) and Snow Bones (Isobar Press, 2016), and in the anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013), while his English translations of Japanese haiku appear in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature (Columbia UP, 2005). In 2023 he published his translation Selected Haiku 1933-1962 by Sanki Sait , and earlier versions of his translations of Sanki's autobiographical essays and haiku were published by Weatherhill in 1993. See less