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hear the hototogisu ~
A reader asked me to discuss this hokku by Bashō:
京にても京なつかしやほとゝぎす
Kyō nite mo Kyō natsukashi ya hototogisu
So how then shall we translate the verse into English? Well, here is how I would do it while remaining close to the original:
Though in Kyōto,
Still longing for Kyōto;
A cuckoo.
– English translation by David
Source: David – HOKKU
A daoku –
Ochiba ochikasanarite ame ame wo utsu
Falling-leaves fall-pile up rain rain wo beats
Leaves fall
And pile up;
Rain beats on rain.
– Gyōdai
Source: RAIN ON FALLEN LEAVES – HOKKU
Daoku is a modern brief verse form in three short lines that continues the essential aesthetics of the best of old Japanese objective hokku, adapted to a non-Japanese language context. . . .
Source: WHAT IS DAOKU? – HOKKU
Source: Area 17: Haiku: Somewhere a clock is ticking – Part One
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