In Galicia, an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain, approximately 2.4 million people speak Galician, a Romance language linked to Portuguese. A few attempts have been made to draw parallels between Japanese haiku and medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry (lírica galaico-portuguesa), notably by Stephen Reckert in Más allá de las neblinas de noviembre (2001) and Luís Alonso Girgado’s introduction to the first edition of Ricardo Martinez-Conde’s A núa lentitude (2001).