imagists influenced by Japanese poetry (and also: Japanese poets were influenced by imagists putting their tradition to use in modernist modes)

Nishiwiki’s poem “Rain” is directly influenced by H.D.’s “Oread.” Here is a discussion with Andrew Houwen about the connection. Generally speaking, thanks for a few contemporary scholars working on the relationship, we find that imagists in the U.S. and England were deeply influenced by Japanese poetic traditions and that Japanese poets were a little later deeply influenced by the imagism of poets like H.D. Here’s a link to the discussion with Professor Howen:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/1SpxX