In the
Footsteps of Bashō: small group travel in
Japan
with a focus on Japanese Literature
A Bit of
Ourselves – Haiku by the Gourds Team
Welcome to A Hundred Gourds.
Our journal's name is taken from a haiku by
Chiyo-ni (1703–1775), who is widely regarded as
one of the greatest haiku poets of the Edo period:

Please read the editors
link for biographical information
about the AHG Team. The navigation bar at the top
will take you to each section of the journal. As
this is the last issue of A Hundred Gourds, we are
no longer accepting submissions.
The translation of
Chiyo-ni's poem – hyakunari ya tsuru hitosuji
no kokoro yori – is from Chiyo-ni -
Woman Haiku Master, Patricia Donegan and
Yoshie Ishbashi; Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Co.,
Inc. 1998.
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and artists. No work may be republished or used in
any way without their explicit permission. A
Hundred Gourds reserves first serial rights
and the right to republish all works herein.
Images credit: Ron Moss, consulting and
contributing artist. Website design a
collaboration between Lorin Ford, Melinda Hipple,
Ron Moss & Ray Rasmussen. Special thanks to
Michael Rehling who so generously has contributed
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Copyright © A Hundred Gourds,
2016
ISSN
2202-0087
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