Toshio KIMURA,

Born in Tokyo in 1956. He was Research Fellow at the University of London, and is Professor at Nihon University, Japan (English Literature/Comparative Literature).

Haiku poet; Member of World Haiku Association.

He gave an invitational address to the Haiku Society of America Conference in Chicago; held a symposium on haiku at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston; Haiku translation for a film of a wandering haiku poet, “Hokaibito—Seigetsu in Ina.”

Haiku Collections: In the Distance; Little Brier-Rose, etc.

Other Books: Haiku in Drawing, Imagination and Reality in English Literature; Kaleidscope of Literature; The Maruzen Dictionary of British Culture; 60 Chapters on Travelling Britain, etc.

Toshio Kimura

木村聡雄

somewhere inside my body

in the dim light—

a small shrine

肉体のどこか薄明りに祠

eyes of a fairy

falling onto the city

—blank

街に降る妖精の眼の無表情

the spirit of verse

not descended—hunting,

for the rest of the night

詩霊おり来たらず狩りとせよ残夜