Faubion Bowers (born January 29, 1917, Miami, Oklahoma, U.S.A.; died New York City, November 17, 1999), American scholar of music and theater, especially kabuki, Japanologist, military officer in the occupation forces after World War II, author, and translator. The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (1996), Bowers’s book of translations of Japanese haiku, was his sole contribution to haiku scholarship yet exerted an outsized influence on the study and composition of haiku in English.