Ex. Cr. Haiku-and-art project

Extra Credit Haiku Project

Extra credit haiku―andーart project.

Write the famous haiku below on a separate, unlined sheet of paper.  Write all 3 versions, the kanji version, the hiragana version, and the English version.  Then illustrate it appropriately, using color as well as black-and-white.

釣鐘に

とまりてねむる

胡蝶かな

                                                つりがねに

                                                とまりてねむる

                                                こちょうかな

On the temple bell

Touches down and goes to sleep

Summer butterfly

                                                                                        Yosa Buson　　与謝蕪村

                                                                                         1716-1784, poet and painter