Haiku stimulated the writing of haiku in English. The Japanese-American scholar and translator Kenneth Yasuda published "The Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples" in 1957. The book includes both translations from Japanese and original poems of his own in English, which had previously appeared in his book titled "A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems together with Original Haiku". In these books Yasuda presented a critical theory about haiku, to which he added comments on haiku poetry by early 20th-century poets and critics. His translations apply a 5–7–5 syllable count in English, with the first and
Norton Juxta Twycross Chimps, most notably for use in the PG Tips Tea Television advertisements which ran from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Hearth tax reveals there were 16 families living in the village in 1564 and a total of 40 inhabitants were charged the tax in 1664. In 1829 the parish of Norton is revealed to have had a population of 301; with an additional 74 living in an exclave of the parish at Bilston. Norton Juxta Twycross Norton Juxta Twycross, usually known as simply "Norton" "(or "Norton-Juxta")", is a small village in Leicestershire, England. The village is part of the