Haiga: A Definition

Traditional Japanese haiga involved brush art work coupled with a haiku (3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables per each line) poem done in brush calligraphy. Like the haiku poem, the focus of haiga is in simplicity of expression.
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Haiga: A Definition

Traditional Japanese haiga involved brush art work coupled with a haiku (3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables per each line) poem done in brush calligraphy. Like the haiku poem, the focus of haiga is in simplicity of expression.

Digital art-haiku is one form of modern haiga. Other forms include photo-haiku [haiku attached to a photographic image] and all modern forms of art coupled with haiku. Of course, traditional haiga is still practiced.

Just as the haiku form often contains a juxtaposition between two of its lines and a third line, so does or can modern haiga contain a juxtaposition between the haiku itself and the digital art work.In short, the art work does not necessarily directly represent the images presented in the haiku.