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Tazuo Basho Yamaguchi is a Japanese-American poet, filmmaker, storyteller, musician, painter, jllustrator and puppeteer.^[1] He both a national and world head-to-head haiku champion. He is also master of the English form of haiku and senryū. He has published four books of poetry and six recorded volumes. He also produced the National Poetry Slam, International World Poetry Individual Slam, Women of the World DVD from 2002 to 2013.

Tazuo Yamaguchi has made two documentary films: Pass It Around (2000) documenting the first ever Asian Spoken Word Summit that took place in Seattle WA, and Haiku: The Art of The Short Poem (2007) the first ever English Language Haiku Documentary. Haiku: The Art of The Short Poem was at the annual Haiku of America Conference in Winston Salem and featured Sonia Sanchez, William J. Higginson (Haiku Handbook) and many other contemporary Haiku poets. He published Symphony (2019) a collection of his paintings, illustrations, stories and poems from his epic Matsu. He is a partnered streamer on twitch.tv (2018).

He has published four picture books all from his epic Matsu: Where It's At (2019), Eyes on The Sir-prize (2019), After The Big Race (2020) (a story that tells what happened after the classic Aesop fables tale Tortoise and The Hare) and The first of a series Don't Get Mad At The Monster (2021).

Yamaguchi is the founder of IPaintCreatures & The Funkyipuppets (2021) - the first ever audio theater Troupe formed on clubhouse to start to tell his epic story MATSU. Matsu is a fantasy and sci-fi epic composed in the grand tradition of Tales of the Heiki, The Illiad and Odyssey. He is the founder of MatsuVerse PBC, a public company formed in February 2023 to support the telling of his epic storyworld experience MATSU. For MatsuVerse PBChe put together IPaintCreatures (his artist moniker) (2016) and the Funkyipuppets puppet troupe in the grand tradition of Jim Henson's Muppets to tell the story of Matsu. With MatsuVerse PBC, Tazuo is carrying on the grand tradition of such creature storytellers as Shigeru Mizuki, Jim Henson, Charles Shultz, Shel Silverstein, George Lucas, Dr. Seuss, and Miyazaki.