A haiku is a form of codified poetry that appeared in Japan during the second half of the seventeenth century. It consists of a very short text, usually three lines, describing an image, a landscape, an emotion, a feeling...

French magician Vincent Hedan had created a wonderfull mentalism effect using a notebook of haiku. A spectator chooses freely a haiku, and the magician is able to draw instantaneously what it represents.

To say it simple, it is a very effective book-test effect. But in fact it is a lot more than that. It creates a moment of pure emotion, a moment of refinement and of elegance...

• No question
• No preshow
• No stooge
• Free choice of haiku
• All haiku are different
• The notebook is examinable
• The perfect book test : you can always have it in your pocket
• Can be done in the street for one person or on stage for five hundred.