The refined and short-lived Japanese poetry of haiku has always been a reflection of the natural world embodied in the endless change of seasons. A man living an ordinary life, whose five senses are tuned to the constant perception of the beauty of the earth and sky, flowers and herbs, cicada songs and solar warmth, is the lyric hero of the genre combining poetry, painting and calligraphy. The authors of haiku created a kind of poetic calendar, in which space was given for a variety of plants and animals, insects, birds and fish, for household sketches and holidays. This unique edition offers the reader to look at the natural world through the prism of the Japanese three-hundredth . The book covers the first two seasons of the year - spring and summer - and contains more than one and a half thousand haiku of the famous classics of the genre in the translation of the famous orientalist Alexander Arkadievich Dolina .. The design used numerous engravings and drawings of medieval Japanese authors, as well as paintings by the famous modern master of Japanese painting in the style of sumi-e Oleg Usov .. The collection is supplemented by calligraphic works by Stanislav Usov .