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Sep. 14th, 2004 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickToday, we look at a haiku by Basho.
夏草や
兵どもが
夢の跡
Natsugusa ya
tsuwamonodomo ga
yume no ato
What does it mean? (This reminds me of tracing a drawing, over and over. The lines overlap and blur details until the essential shape is all that we can see. Refining is, by its very nature, a lossy process...)
What does it mean? (You might enjoy further reading on nifty haiku stuff, or perhaps it will be enough for you to know that A PAN string is a joint presentation of phrases which lacks a verb phrase.)
What does it mean?
Blunt tools only mash
the delicate butterfly.
Clueless frustration.
Natsugusa is summer grass, according to my dictionary. And, y'know, the first kanji there is summer, and the second one is grass, so yeah, I'm buying summer grass. Okay by me. I don't know what plant this might be in Japan, so I've mentally replaced it with high timothy, past due for cutting, which makes a lovely field.
や is a particle and I don't have my grammar with me so I've no idea what it does.
Moving onward. 兵 is warrior, ども is a pluralizing suffix, though the dictionary says it's not particularly enthusiastic or respectful. Not sure if that's important or not. が usually marks the grammatic subject of a sentence and I imagine that's what it's doing here.
夢 is dream, の shows possessive or 's, and 跡 is leftover, tracks, trace when used as a noun (like in 夢の跡). There does not appear to be a verb, here.
Summer grasses
Ya'll warriors (subject)
dream's traces
As someone in the group always says when we discuss haiku...
blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah summer.
Now that's paring it down to essentials. :)
Stolen from Language Hat, who frequently has interesting things to share.
Want to take a stab at some more haiku in Japanese?
I particularly liked
三千の
俳句を閲し
柿二つ
Here are some in Portugese and Japanese, sorted as to season. As I can't read shit for Portugese, these are handy for practicing translation skillz (no cheating, see). Look for "Versão com kanji" in the upper left of the season page -- that'll give you the kanjified page.
夏草や
兵どもが
夢の跡
Natsugusa ya
tsuwamonodomo ga
yume no ato
What does it mean? (This reminds me of tracing a drawing, over and over. The lines overlap and blur details until the essential shape is all that we can see. Refining is, by its very nature, a lossy process...)
What does it mean? (You might enjoy further reading on nifty haiku stuff, or perhaps it will be enough for you to know that A PAN string is a joint presentation of phrases which lacks a verb phrase.)
What does it mean?
Blunt tools only mash
the delicate butterfly.
Clueless frustration.
Natsugusa is summer grass, according to my dictionary. And, y'know, the first kanji there is summer, and the second one is grass, so yeah, I'm buying summer grass. Okay by me. I don't know what plant this might be in Japan, so I've mentally replaced it with high timothy, past due for cutting, which makes a lovely field.
や is a particle and I don't have my grammar with me so I've no idea what it does.
Moving onward. 兵 is warrior, ども is a pluralizing suffix, though the dictionary says it's not particularly enthusiastic or respectful. Not sure if that's important or not. が usually marks the grammatic subject of a sentence and I imagine that's what it's doing here.
夢 is dream, の shows possessive or 's, and 跡 is leftover, tracks, trace when used as a noun (like in 夢の跡). There does not appear to be a verb, here.
Summer grasses
Ya'll warriors (subject)
dream's traces
As someone in the group always says when we discuss haiku...
blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah summer.
Now that's paring it down to essentials. :)
Stolen from Language Hat, who frequently has interesting things to share.
Want to take a stab at some more haiku in Japanese?
I particularly liked
三千の
俳句を閲し
柿二つ
Here are some in Portugese and Japanese, sorted as to season. As I can't read shit for Portugese, these are handy for practicing translation skillz (no cheating, see). Look for "Versão com kanji" in the upper left of the season page -- that'll give you the kanjified page.
