As the undisputed father figure of haiku poetry, Matsuo Basho is the most famous poet outside Japan - and now is your chance to start knowing him even better, in the original Japanese with full translations and explanations!
Book 2 in the Nippoem bilingual series is a short collection of haiku poems by Basho. This bilingual reader features:
(1) Ten haiku poems, each representing a season word associated with the spring.
(2) Japanese script and latin transliteration for each poem.
(3) Analysis: the actual structure of the original Japanese in a hyper-literal version.
(4) Translation: The poem's meaning rendered into natural English.
(5) Notes: Information about vocabulary, grammar, cultural facts, and anything that cannot be translated accurately.
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Sample (first poem):
おもしろやことしのはるも旅の空
omoshiro ya / kotoshi no haru mo / tabi no sora
Analysis
Enjoyable [CW] / this year [possessive] spring also / travel [possessive] sky
Translation
How delightful! Yet another new year's spring comes... (continued in ebook)
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Important notice:
This ebook contains both English and Japanese. You can read and understand everything in the text using the romanization, but if you would like to see the Japanese script, please make sure you read the book on a device that is capable of displaying Japanese correctly. If you have an older device, please use Kindle's desktop application instead.
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About the series:
Nippoem's goal is to bring Japanese poetry to non-native readers by putting the original texts at the center. With the aid of translations, structure analyses, and detailed notes, you will get to know the poems as they truly look, sound, and feel. The ebooks are carefully designed to be readable and usable by general readers who are interested in Japan or poetry but do not study Japanese. To language learners, Nippoem offers a rare gateway into a little-taught part of the language.
These ebooks, including all the translations and notes, are created by Dan Bornstein, a professional translator, editor, and language entrepreneur who lived four years in Kyoto and now manages several online projects for the instruction of Japanese. Dan also edits, writes and translates the Reajer series, which is focused on prose Japanese and is geared primarily toward language learners.
Book 2 in the Nippoem bilingual series is a short collection of haiku poems by Basho. This bilingual reader features:
(1) Ten haiku poems, each representing a season word associated with the spring.
(2) Japanese script and latin transliteration for each poem.
(3) Analysis: the actual structure of the original Japanese in a hyper-literal version.
(4) Translation: The poem's meaning rendered into natural English.
(5) Notes: Information about vocabulary, grammar, cultural facts, and anything that cannot be translated accurately.
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Sample (first poem):
おもしろやことしのはるも旅の空
omoshiro ya / kotoshi no haru mo / tabi no sora
Analysis
Enjoyable [CW] / this year [possessive] spring also / travel [possessive] sky
Translation
How delightful! Yet another new year's spring comes... (continued in ebook)
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Important notice:
This ebook contains both English and Japanese. You can read and understand everything in the text using the romanization, but if you would like to see the Japanese script, please make sure you read the book on a device that is capable of displaying Japanese correctly. If you have an older device, please use Kindle's desktop application instead.
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About the series:
Nippoem's goal is to bring Japanese poetry to non-native readers by putting the original texts at the center. With the aid of translations, structure analyses, and detailed notes, you will get to know the poems as they truly look, sound, and feel. The ebooks are carefully designed to be readable and usable by general readers who are interested in Japan or poetry but do not study Japanese. To language learners, Nippoem offers a rare gateway into a little-taught part of the language.
These ebooks, including all the translations and notes, are created by Dan Bornstein, a professional translator, editor, and language entrepreneur who lived four years in Kyoto and now manages several online projects for the instruction of Japanese. Dan also edits, writes and translates the Reajer series, which is focused on prose Japanese and is geared primarily toward language learners.
