#Haiku Happenings #3: Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Dakotsu Iida!
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
むらさきのこゑを山辺に夏燕 飯田蛇笏
murasaki no koe o yamabe ni natsu-tsubame
its voice in purple
near the mountain
a summer skylark
Dakotsu Iida
from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
Fay’s Note: Dakotsu Iida (1885-1962)

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