雪解や妹が巨燵に足袋かたしyukidoke ya / imo ga kotatsu ni / tabi katashiThe first reading let me put the verse into something like, they put tabi socks in the kotatsuto dry. However, the word "katasu" does notmean "to dry." I lived for a v

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夕風や水青鷺(あをさぎ)の脛(はぎ)を打つこれは蕪村の句である。子規は『俳人蕪村』で、様々な美の基準を設けて、蕪村の俳句の方が芭蕉の俳句より優れていることを明示している。この句は客観的美および繊細的美の2つで取り上げられている。客観的美のところ

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Some of you must have wondered about the veracity of Bashyo's frog pond. I've come to know its fictionality, which is combined with Bashyo's haiku poetry. This meansto him it was a matter of virtual reality; it is up to each ofus whether

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Finally bought a copy of ”Eccentric Episodes of Haiku Poets andMore Eccenntric Episodes of them" Arakida Moritake was a priest at the Grand Shrine of Ise.He loved waka and renka and was well known.He has been known for the nest two poems:c

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鈴木しづ子コスモスなどやさしく吹けば死ねないよkosmosnado yasashiku fukeba shinenai yo cosmos and other things swaying gently how can I die?　　　Fay Aoyagiblow a bubble gently, it floats awayblow a cosmos ge

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The most fundamental thing or the bases of Shiki's Poetics is in this passage, which is not that often quoted but has been not well read as far as I see.Shiki tells us he wanted to be a painter when young or in his teens.He wanted to attend

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The other day I read Toyoko Izutsu's essay on how waka workswith limited numbler of words and self-governing rules. The essaywas against W.G. Aston's criticism on waka(1902); his criticism is made fromWestern poetry views. It is easy to

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古池や蛙飛び込む水の音夢より覚めて風ささやけりan old pond---/a frog jumps in/a splash!/I awake from daydream/with the whisper of wind切れ字を英語で説明したが、切れ字自体は日本語なので英語の説明になっていないということらしい。そこで、古池や

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