THF Galleries: Haiga of Christina Chin and Takatoshi Goto
Christina Chin
The Haiku Foundation honors the work of contemporary masters of the dual art of haiga: visual image wedded to haiku. This month we feature a collaboration between Christina Chin and Takatoshi Goto.
Christina is a painter and a haiku poet, a three-time Pushcart Prize 2025 Nominee, and a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests. Her work has been exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. She is provided the haiku for the MusArt book of Randall Vemer’s paintings published by ArtReach Publication, Portland, Oregon. Among her awards are 1st prize in the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest; 1st prize in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest; and two City Soka Saitama’s 2020 haiku prizes. She is published in numerous journals, multilingual journals and anthologies including Japan’s prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.
Takatoshi was born in Nagasaki-city, Japan, and received a Doctorate of Medicine from Jichi Medical University. He has published several books of haiku and criticism. He won the prestigious Modern Haiku Debut Prize in 1995, and since then has received numerous other awards, including the 1997 Sweden Haiku Prize, and the 1997 Modern Haiku Critic Prize. In 2018 he became the chief director of the Japan Haiku Association, and in 2024 served as director of the Bungaku no Mori Foundation.
Takatoshi Goto
