Haiku by Buson
A flash of lightning,
The sound of dew,
Dripping down the bamboos [1]
稲妻にこぼるる音や竹の露
inazuma ni koboruru oto ya take no tsuyu
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by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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H3001 Haiku by Buson - A flash of lightning ... by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
A flash of lightning!
The sound of dew
Dripping down the bamboos [1]
|
inazuma ni koboruru oto ya take no tsuyu |
稲妻に こぼるる音や 竹の露 |
| Buson | 蕪村 |
Blyth writes:
As Buson stands in the bamboo forest in the early morning, there is a flash of lightning; the whole of nature seems in a state of tension, the mind of the listener with it. At this moment of suspense, the drip-drip of dew falling through the bamboo grove is felt so deeply, it can hardly be called hearing. [1]
W. C. Merwin suggests the translation:
In the flash of lightning
I hear the dewdrops rolling
down the bamboo leaves [2]
Makoto Ueda suggests the translation:
at a flash
of lightning, the sound of dew
falling from a bamboo [3]
References:
[1] Blyth, R. H. (1982). Haiku, Vol. 3: Summer-Autumn. Tokyo, The Hokuseido Press. 700.
[2] Merwin, W. S. and Lento, Takako. (2013). Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson. United States. Copper Canyon Press.
[3] Ueda, Makoto. (1998). The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson. United States. Stanford University Press.
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