Haiku Master Kiyoko Uda. Uda-sensei is a major haiku poet and the editor-in-chief of Sôen("Grass Garden"), a leading haiku monthly. She chairs the "NHK Haiku World" (Japan's NHK is equivalent to our American PBS or the British BBC). She co-authored, with Master Momoko Kuroda, an anthology of 12,000 haiku by more than 80 women, Joryû Haiku Shûsei ("The Women's Haiku Collection," pictured below center). Her first collection of haiku, Rira no ki ("Lilac Bushes," 1980) contributed to her winning the prestigeous Modern Haiku Association Prize in 1982, and has been followed by several other collections. Her haiku have been translated into English in two important anthologies, A Long Rainy Season: Haiku & Tanka, edited by Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama, and Akemi Tomioka (Stone Bridge Press, 1994, pictured below left) and Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women, edited by Makoto Ueda (Columbia University Press, 2003, pictured below right)—the book-title links will take you to their publishers' descriptions. (Photo by W. J. Higginson copyright © 2004; all rights reserved.)