BARE BONES School of Renga

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Jane Reichhold has been combining her art and writing since her college days fifty years ago. Her latest book, by Kodansha International, is Basho The Complete Haiku. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane has also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she has co-edited with Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets since 1992.. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com, the web site Jane started in 1995. She lives near Gualala, California with Werner, her husband, and a Bengal cat named Buddha.


		*BARE BONES* *School of Renga* Jane Reichhold



		As result of my working with the Mendocino County teachers and the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, California, I have seen that though my book, Writing and Enjoying Haiku, has been very helpful to many people, in this new work I am discovering that there needs be a better way to teach renga writing in schools. So, as companion to the Bare Bones School of Haiku, I want to bring you the Bare Bones School of Renga with the hope that it will increase your pleasure and knowledge about renga. Jane Reichhold April, 2011 Lesson One History of Renga Lesson Two How Renga were Done in Japan Lesson Three Basho as Renga Master Lesson Four First Steps for Learning to Renga Doing tan renga, solo renga and book renga Lesson Five Writing Renga with a Partner Lesson Six Setting up a Renga Lesson Seven Linkage Techniques Lesson Eight Troubleshooting Lesson Nine Renga Variations - The Hyakuin Lesson Ten Renga Varitions - Net and Pyramid Renga Lesson Eleven Renga Variations - All the Rest Lesson Twelve Visual Renga Resources
HOW TO USE THESE LESSONS Read the lesson through to see if anything in it interests you or applies to your current interest in haiku. Download the file into a word document and save all the files together in one directory. Or Print the lesson out on paper. You may print and give away as many copies as you wish as long as you do not sell them. Use the printouts or the downloaded files as worksheets, writing down your poems, your ideas, and even what you feel about what is said. Do save your files or worksheets. You may be surprised years later when you read again the lessons and your responses to find new ideas or understanding. It will be interesting to see how your haiku and your understanding of the form changes. Blessed Be!



		Page and Materials Copyright © Jane Reichhold 2001. Please give credit when borrowing. Jane Reichhold has been combining her art and writing since her college days fifty years ago. Her latest book, by Kodansha International, is Basho The Complete Haiku. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane has also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she has co-edited with Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets since 1992.. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com, the web site Jane started in 1995. She lives near Gualala, California with Werner, her husband, and a Bengal cat named Buddha.
	The above picture of Basho at a renga party was painted by Buson and added to the text of Basho's book Oku no Hosomichi - Narrow Road to the Far North. It was scanned from a facsimle scroll of the original work purchased at the Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan.