If a haiku is made (through the imagination) rather than experienced
it can often be easily understood logically. Haiku are not supposed to
be fully understood logically.
A quote from Otsuji (Seki Osuga)
"If one does not grasp something - something which does not merely touch us through our senses but contacts the life within and has the dynamic form of nature- no matter how cunningly we form our words, they will give only a hollow sound. Those who compose haiku without grasping anything are merely exercising their ingenuity. The ingenious become only selectors of words and cannot create new experiences from themselves."
from "Ostuji hairon-shuu" (Otsuji's collected essays on haiku
theory)
ed. by Toyo Yoshida, 5th ed. Tokyo: Kaede Shobo, 1947, p. 18.
If 90% of a haiku can be understood it is a good haiku.
If 50-60% can be understood it is wonderful.
This kind of haiku we never tire of.
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