KONDO Tadashi

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KONDO Tadashi Shokan is a professor at Seikei University. He is author of various essays exploring poetics: "Principles of Universal Haiku Grammar" on the stylistics & poetics common to all languages; "World Renku (linked poetry)" on international semiotic perspectives; and "Link and Shift" on the guiding principles for renku writing. He started Renku Performance, exploring the potentials of linked verse as a multi-media arts fusion. He is also a member of the Renku Association; founder & coordinator of the United Nations of Renku; and the head of the Isehara Renku Society.