Featuring peaceful landscapes and animals, this wall calendar expresses Zen wisdom as well as quiet wonder and delight in the world.

The Japanese-inspired collages in this calendar include haiku by award-winning poet and artist Annette Makino. She created each of these collages with hand-painted washi papers from Asia as well as found papers.

This mini-calendar measures 5-1/2” wide by 7” tall closed (or 5-1/2” x 14” open), so it will easily fit in a small space. Major US holidays are listed. All twelve designs are shown on the back. The calendar includes an artist’s bio and some background on haiku and haiga (haiku art).

These are professionally printed in the USA on substantial paper and saddle-stitched. Each calendar is packaged in a self-sealing cellophane sleeve.

Many users of past Makino Studios calendars save and hang up each month’s painting after it has passed or give the image to a friend. The new calendar makes a great gift that may continue to bring pleasure well past 2026.

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Featuring peaceful landscapes and animals, this wall calendar expresses Zen wisdom as well as quiet wonder and delight in the world.

The Japanese-inspired collages in this calendar include haiku by award-winning poet Annette Makino. She created each of these collages with washi papers from Asia as well as found papers that she hand-paints and tears.

This mini-calendar measures 5-1/2” wide by 7” tall closed (5-1/2” x 14” open), so it will easily fit in a small space. Major US holidays are listed. All twelve designs are shown on the back. The calendar includes an artist’s bio and some background on haiku and haiga (haiku art).

These are professionally printed in the USA on substantial paper and saddle-stitched. Each calendar is packaged in a self-sealing cellophane sleeve.

Many users of past Makino Studios calendars save and hang up each month’s painting after it has passed or give the image to a friend. The new calendar makes a great gift that may continue to bring pleasure well past 2025.

• Please note this is the 2024 calendar, for those who just want to enjoy the art. The 2025 calendar is available here.

Featuring peaceful landscapes and animals, this wall calendar expresses Zen wisdom as well as quiet wonder and delight in the world.

The Japanese-inspired collages in this calendar include haiku by award-winning poet Annette Makino. She created each of these collages with washi papers from Asia as well as found papers that she hand-paints and tears.

This mini-calendar measures 5-1/2” wide by 7” tall closed (5-1/2” x 14” open), so it will easily fit in a small space. Major US holidays are listed. All twelve designs are shown on the back. The calendar includes an artist’s bio and some background on haiku and haiga (haiku art).

These are professionally printed in the USA on substantial paper and saddle-stitched. Each calendar is packaged in a self-sealing cellophane sleeve.

Many users of past Makino Studios calendars save and hang up each month’s painting after it has passed or give the image to a friend. The new calendar makes a great gift that may continue to bring pleasure well past 2024.

• Please note this is the 2023 calendar, for those who just want to enjoy the art. The 2025 calendar is available here.

Featuring peaceful landscapes and animals, this wall calendar expresses Zen wisdom as well as quiet wonder and delight in the world.

The Japanese-inspired collages in this calendar include haiku by award-winning poet Annette Makino. She created each of these collages with hand-painted and torn washi papers from Asia as well as found papers.

This mini-calendar measures 5-1/2” wide by 7” tall closed (or 5-1/2” x 14” open), so it will easily fit in a small space. Major US holidays are listed. All twelve designs are shown on the back. The calendar includes an artist’s bio and some background on haiku and haiga (haiku art).

These are professionally printed in the USA on substantial paper and saddle-stitched. Each calendar is packaged in a self-sealing cellophane sleeve.

Many users of past Makino Studios calendars save and hang up each month’s painting after it has passed or give the image to a friend. The new calendar makes a great gift that may continue to bring pleasure well past 2023.

• Please note this is the 2022 calendar, for those who just want to enjoy the art. The 2025 calendar is available here.

Featuring peaceful landscapes, flowers and animals, this wall calendar expresses Zen wisdom as well as quiet wonder and delight in the world.

The Japanese-inspired collages in this calendar include haiku by award-winning poet Annette Makino. She created each of these collages with hand-painted and torn washi papers from Asia as well as found papers.

This mini-calendar measures 5-1/2” wide by 7” tall closed (or 5-1/2” x 14” open), so it will easily fit in a small space. Major US holidays are listed. All twelve designs are shown on the back. The calendar includes an artist’s bio and some background on haiku and haiga (haiku art).

These are professionally printed in the USA on substantial paper and saddle-stitched. Each calendar is packaged in a self-sealing cellophane sleeve.

Many users of past Makino Studios calendars save and hang up each month’s painting after it has passed or give the image to a friend. The new calendar makes a great gift that may continue to bring pleasure well past 2022.

• Please note this is the 2020 calendar, for those who just want to enjoy the art. The 2025 calendar is available here.

This unique wall calendar features original haiku and art by Annette Makino. Painted with sumi ink and Japanese watercolors, her vibrant artwork provides a steady stream of beauty and insight all through the year.

This mini-calendar measures 5-1/2 x 8 tall when closed, and will easily fit in a narrow space. Major US holidays are listed. All twelve designs are shown on the back of the calendar. The calendar includes an artist’s bio and background on haiku and haiga (haiku art).

These are professionally printed in the USA on substantial paper and saddle-stitched. Each calendar is packaged in a self-sealing cellophane bag.

* Honorable Mention, Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards *

“With the publication of Water and Stone, Annette Makino takes her place among the leaders of haiku painting (haiga).”

—Stephen Addiss, author of The Art of Haiku

This beautiful book by award-winning haiku poet and artist Annette Makino provides a welcome dose of Zen wisdom and humor for our fractured world. Through vibrant paintings and evocative poems, Makino finds beauty and meaning in the everyday world, be it the rhythm of ocean waves, the bittersweet joys of parenting, or a traumatized rescue dog.

Spanning a decade of painting and writing, Water and Stone features fifty haiga—artworks combined with haiku—painted with Japanese watercolors and sumi ink. Sprinkled throughout the collection are fifteen haibun—autobiographical prose pieces that include haiku. While deeply personal, these touch on universal themes such as the quest for meaningful work, finding love, raising a family, growing older, and considering our place in the world.

By turns joyful and poignant, this full-color collection of Makino’s paintings and haiku is a treat for lovers of Japanese poetry and art. Reading Water and Stone lifts the spirit while helping to deepen awareness and appreciation of the present moment.

Book is full color, 8x10, 124 pages, softbound.

Praise for Water and Stone - read the book reviews

This is the 13th volume in The New Resonance series, begun in 1999 to showcase emerging voices in English-language haiku. Annette Makino is one of the 17 poets featured in this edition, which includes photos and an introduction to each poet along with a sampling of their work, compiled by editors Jim Kacian and Julie Schwerin.

According to the publisher, Red Moon Press, “The New Resonance haiku community now consists of 221 members with the addition of the New Resonance 13 group. These poets continue to appear in the major haiku journals and elsewhere, and their books have been accorded the honor of serious and adulatory review and critique. Many are recognized among the leaders of literary haiku in their respective countries and around the world. These seventeen new members to this rather exclusive confederacy, then, have a very high standard against which to measure themselves, but equally high expectations of their ultimate position in the haiku community. This is the thirteenth volume in a much-awarded series.”

The featured poets are Agnes Eva Savich, Annette Makino, Cyndi Lloyd, Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Frank Hooven, Jennifer Hambrick, Jim Laurila, John Rowlands, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Kat Lehmann, Lorraine A Padden, Marianne Paul, Mimi Ahern, our thomas, Pippa Phillips, red moon press, Robert Witmer, and Tom Bierovic