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Easily the most famous haiku of all time. “One hundred frogs: from renga to haiku to English” by Hiroaki Sato contains one hundred different translations of this poem.

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Japanese:

古池 蛙飛び込む 水の音

Romanization:

furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

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