LONG BEACH >> In the Royal Salon on the Queen Mary this week, they’ve come from far and wide to celebrate an ancient Japanese art form, one preserved by serious poets and jokesters alike: haiku.

“Water and Stone” features 50 haiga — artworks combined with haiku — painted with Japanese watercolors and sumi ink. In the first full-length collection of her art and haiku, Makino finds ...

Many English speakers first encounter the haiku in school, learning that it is a poem of 17 syllables, divided into lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. And Japanese people are also likely to ...

REDWAY — Arcata artist Annette Makino will show her Japanese-inspired paintings for the first time in Southern Humboldt starting in July at Persimmons Garden Gallery. The public is invited to… ...

By combining techniques, these artists created multilayered images that challenge distinctions between mediums, art-making traditions, and notions of fine art and commercial design. The prints and ...

Social Studies: world history, Japanese culture and art. Featured student skills: Close reading of literature. Literary interpretation. Creative writing. Writing concretely and vividly. Recognition of ...

Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.

These Japanese cities may inspire your next haiku. Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites.