Kenneth Yasuda Haiku in English being as popular as with its Japanese audience. In Yasuda's haiku theory the intent of the haiku is contained in the concept of a "haiku moment," 'that moment of absolute intensity when the poet's grasp of his intuition is complete so that the image lives its own life', (seventeen syllables corresponding to that 'moment', divided into three lines within 'one breath length' ). This notion of the haiku moment has been defined as 'an aesthetic moment' a timeless feeling of enlightened harmony as a poet's nature and environment are unified'The passing momentary experience that comes alive through
Kenneth Yasuda His other books include "A Pepper-pod: Classic Japanese Poems Together with Original Haiku," a collection of haiku and translations in English; "Masterworks of the Noh Theater"; "A Lacquer Box", translation of waka and a translation of "Minase Sangin Hyakuin", a 100-verse renga poem led by Sōgi and titled in English as "Three Poets at Minase". Yasuda's 1957 book consists mainly of material from his doctoral dissertation from 1955, and includes both translations from Japanese and original poems of his own in English. These had previously appeared in his book "A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems together with Original Haiku" (Alfred A.