(tent) The Good-Tempered Dog

Hiromi Kawakami’s First Haiku Collection — 220 Poems Known for her quietly profound fiction, Hiromi Kawakami has also been composing haiku for sixteen years. This debut haiku collection gathers 220 verses that capture fleeting moments of love, daily life, mealtime, and travel. As in her novels, seemingly ordinary scenes shimmer with subtle emotional nuance—particularly the delicate interplay between men and women. In these poems, a new dimension of the Kawakami World quietly reveals itself.