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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday:
“In a clear glass,” Author Unknown, tr. Thomas McAuley
In a clear glass
There is a face
Turning to it
I look and
An unknown old man
I feel I have met.
すかがみそこなるかげにむかひゐてみるときにこそしらぬおきなにあふここちすれ
masukagami / soko naru kage ni / mukai’ite / miru toki ni koso / shiranu okina ni / au kokochi ni sure
From the anthology Wakan rōeishū, book II, #733, a collection of songs in Chinese and Japanese to which the tunes all have been lost. The translator’s website is enormous, and an amazing resource for classical Japanese poetry. His translations can be almost painfully literal, apparently aimed more for the student than the casual reader, but there’s nothing else like it out there. I’ve been subscribed to![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
wakapoetry_feed since I was translating Japanese myself.
---L.
Subject quote from The Trosachs, William Wordsworth. I hereby humbly apologize for the ambush Wordsworth, but it was just too appropriate.
“In a clear glass,” Author Unknown, tr. Thomas McAuley
In a clear glass
There is a face
Turning to it
I look and
An unknown old man
I feel I have met.
すかがみそこなるかげにむかひゐてみるときにこそしらぬおきなにあふここちすれ
masukagami / soko naru kage ni / mukai’ite / miru toki ni koso / shiranu okina ni / au kokochi ni sure
From the anthology Wakan rōeishū, book II, #733, a collection of songs in Chinese and Japanese to which the tunes all have been lost. The translator’s website is enormous, and an amazing resource for classical Japanese poetry. His translations can be almost painfully literal, apparently aimed more for the student than the casual reader, but there’s nothing else like it out there. I’ve been subscribed to
wakapoetry_feed since I was translating Japanese myself.---L.
Subject quote from The Trosachs, William Wordsworth. I hereby humbly apologize for the ambush Wordsworth, but it was just too appropriate.
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Date: 11 September 2023 04:15 pm (UTC)Love the translation. Thank you.
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Date: 11 September 2023 08:06 pm (UTC)