Modes of Haiku Composition in Taiwan Haiku Saijiki：Overcoming “Local Color” and the Recording of History

This paper examines Huang Lingzhi’s Taiwan Haiku Saijiki, analyzing both the explanatory essays and concrete examples of haiku to explore the differences in significance between “Taiwanese season words” and Japanese season words, as well as the ways in which Taiwanese haiku poets composed their work.</br>The book not only offers guidance for Taiwanese haiku poets on how to write haiku but was also awarded the Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards for its attempt to seek the universality of season words, earning high recognition within Japanese haiku communities.</br>While previous scholarship has primarily addressed the work’s relationship with Japanese haiku communities and the author’s intentions, this paper reexamines the text through the lens of “local color,” a concept that has emerged as a central point of discussion in earlier studies.