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 last two seasons of the year - autumn and winter - and contains more than a thousand haiku of famous classics of the genre translated by the famous orientalist Alexander Arkadievich Dolina, as well as an appendix with reflections on the essence of poetic creativity. 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 .