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May/June 2019 • Vol. XLI No. 3 |

Three Demons:
Sanki Haiku I

By Sanki Saitō

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Sanki Saitō (1900–1962) was a Japanese writer, most famous for his haiku, which he began writing in his thirties while practicing dentistry and for which he was imprisoned during the Second World War. His four major collections are Flags (1940), Night Peaches (1948), Today (1952), and Transformations (1962). Sanki is a nom de plume that means “Three Demons.”

Ryan C. K. Choi lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was born and raised. His work has appeared in Harper’s, BOMB, Yale Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere.

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