The Hispanic-Japanese Cultural Center of the USAL inaugurates the exhibition “Haikugraphic: Moments of nature”

The Hispanic Japanese Cultural Center (CCHJ) of the University of Salamanca has inaugurated this Friday the exhibition “Haikugraphic: Moments of nature”. The event was attended by José Abel Flores Villarejo, director of the CCHJ and curator of the exhibition, and Francisco Antequera, researcher at the Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics.

According to what they have stated, the main objective of the exhibition is to contribute to increasing the appreciation and practice of haiku as a form of poetic expression accessible to all ages and sensibilities, as well as promoting participation in future editions of the contest that gives it its name. It can be visited from January 23 to March 3, 2026 from Monday to Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.

About “Haikugraphic”

The material for this exhibition arises from the various editions of “Haikuográfico”, a competition of haiku illustrated books organized by the center to promote the dissemination of one of the most popular forms of short poetry in Japan, which has an increasing presence in Western culture.

Of the more than six hundred works presented throughout its four calls (2017, 2019, 2023 and 2025), a committee of experts in art, science and literature has selected the forty-four proposals that are shown in this exhibition. In them, the text is combined with an image (photography, engraving, drawing or painting) to become integrated into a single original and unpublished work.

The resulting works are exhibited in dialogue with creations that, in the same way as the haikuarise from the emotion provoked by the observation of a fleeting moment of nature, by the artists Juan Sebastián González and María Reina Salas, both professors at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca.