Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master
May 3rd 2007 07:50
CHIYO-NI
Woman Haiku Master
By Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi
Woman Haiku Master
By Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi
This book s brings you the original text in kanji and kana and romaji along with translations and notes and commentary of Chiyo's works.
You may have heard of Basho or Issa or Shiki as Haiku masters. Chiyo -ni 1703 - 1775 also known as Kaga no Chiyo is noted for a poem about morning glories catching a bucket and another about her dead child.
Here's one of her spring haiku
Wakakusa ya / kirema kirema ni / mizu no iro
literally green grass ! between between the (blades of grass implied) water color of
deceptively simple since between under translates the full impact of kirema
A winter poem
Koe nakauba / sagi ushinawan / kesa no yuki
but for their voices the herons would disappear this mornings snow
A great book for students and lovers of haiku and poetry!
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