A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life

Mitsu Suzuki is the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center. After he passed away in 1971, she remained at Zen Center where she taught tea ceremony and began writing poetry. Her first collection of haiku, “Temple Dust,” was published in 1992. The 100 haiku selected for “A White Tea Bowl” were written after her return to Japan in 1993. She will be 100 years old on April 27, 2014. Kate McCandless is a Zen teacher at Mountain Rain Zen Community, Vancouver, Canada. She studied Japanese language and poetry at the University of British Columbia and Tsukuba University, Japan. Based in Vancouver, Kate works as a counselor in hospice and bereavement care. Norman Fischer is a poet, priest, and a former abbot of San Francisco Zen Center. He is founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation, dedicated to sharing Zen teaching and practice widely with the world. He lives in Muir Beach, CA. Kazuaki Tanahashi is a Zen teacher, a translator, and an artist renowned for his works of calligraphy. Based in Berkeley, CA, his numerous books include “Enlightenment Unfolds, Brush Mind,” and “Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan.”