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World religion

4. Do you agree that sumi-e and haiku are very similar art forms? What makes them so similar? What makes them "so Zen"?

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SUMI-E is the Japanese word for Black Ink Painting. East Asian Painting and composing grew together in old China utilizing similar materials — brush and ink on paper. Accentuation is set on the excellence of every individual stroke of the brush. The Chinese discuss "composing a painting" and "painting a poem." An extraordinary painting was judged on three components: the calligraphy strokes, the words of the verse (regularly with twofold implications and unobtrusive plays on words) and the capacity of the painting strokes to capture the spirit (Ch'i) of nature instead of a photographic similarity. The artists of Japan, Korea and Malaysia gained from the Chinese and after that built up their own renditions of East Asian brush painting.

Haiku is a Japanese art-form conceived from Taoism, Buddhism, and Shintoism. It can be followed back to the seventeenth century in Japan, where it developed from the cunning linked verse called renga and additionally the marginally longer form of tanka. To start with known as hokku, haiku was just given its present name in the nineteenth century by a Japanese essayist named Masaoka Shiki.

In spite of the fact that there were numerous incredible Haiku poets, it is for the most part recognized that there were four extraordinary bosses: Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayasshi Issa, and Masaoka Shiki. Basho's frog poem is maybe the most surely understood haiku and he is to some degree attributed with breathing life into the form. Basho additionally composed diaries about his movements in the more drawn out form of haibun, a form which intersperses writing with haiku. In any case, not at all like Basho, Issa originated from humble roots and a to a great degree troublesome and devastated childhood, and he connected this experience to his written work. This gave Issa's verse the normal bit of the general population and made haiku by and by spread and pick up in prominence.

Haiku is surely a short poem, yet it is composed without the vast majority of the regular poetic gadgets, for example, rhyme and comparison. Rather, haiku ought to be composed utilizing solid pictures without poetic twists and excessively enlightening words. With regards to the unassuming and oversimplified nature of haiku, the poem does not have a title and the principal word in each line ought not be promoted. It ought to dependably be composed in the current state keeping in mind the end goal to pass on the feeling of being available and living in that particular haiku minute. Lastly, haiku is both the solitary and the plural of the word.