Classical Japanese Database

List of all translations:

#4.

(edit)In this world / We walk on the roof of hell / Gazing at flowers

#14.

(edit)Willow bare / clear stream dried up / rocks here and there

#16.

(edit)Ah! The ancient pond / As a frog takes the plunge / Sound of …

#17.

(edit)Old pond / Frog jumps in / Kerploosh

#18.

(edit)The octopus' fleeting dream / in the trap / the summer moon

#27.

(edit)Another year is gone; / and I still wear / straw hat and stra…

#31.

(edit)Sabi is the color of haiku. / It is different from tranquili…

#32.

(edit)The old pond— / a frog jumps in, / sound of water

#41.

(edit)TWENTY-SECOND / / It rains during the morning. No visitors t…

#42.

(edit)Sabi is the color of the poem. It does not necessarily refer …

#44.

(edit)Along this road / Goes no one, / This autumn eve. /

#46.

(edit)Sick on a journey, / my dreams wander / the withered fields

#48.

(edit)Being sick in trip, / I make a tour in my dream / In a wither…

#50.

(edit)In June I'm looking / At a blue umbrella and / Higashiyama.

#53.

(edit)In the white plum blossoms / night to next day / just turning

#55.

(edit)Even in Kyôto— / hearing the cuckoo's cry— / I long for Kyôto

#56.

(edit)I am in Kyôto, / Yet at the voice of the hototogisu, / Longin…

#58.

(edit)In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred / bon…

#59.

(edit)The stillness / of the pond / is disrupted / by a frog

#60.

(edit)It's June, and / the sky-blue umbrellas, and / Higashi-yama!

#63.

(edit)One field / did they plant. / I, under the willow.

#64.

(edit)The old pond: / A frog jumps in,— / The sound of the water.

#65.

(edit)It has come to pass / Each night dawns eternally into / White…

#66.

(edit)Fallen ill on the journey / My feverish dreams / run wild in …

#68.

(edit)Heart's end, good and evil's promise, is set.

#70.

(edit)This pervasive silence / Enhanced yet by cicadas simmering / …

#71.

(edit)Back to Kyoto / My longing now refreshed / When Hototogisu cry

#75.

(edit)the Spring wind / scattering blossoms / I saw it in a dream /…

#77.

(edit)even in a person / who thinks nothing / of all things / it cr…

#78.

(edit)veris ventus / flores dispergens / visus in somnio / suscitat…

#80.

(edit)Alongside the path / Fresh water flows, and / In the willow’s…

#82.

(edit)Society / Just treads Hell's roof / Distracted by the Cherry …

#84.

(edit)Living all alone / In this space between the rocks / Far from…

#87.

(edit)My love will end / in hopelessness— / these longing sighs / I…

#91.

(edit)In this mountain village / where I've given up / all hope of …

#94.

(edit)Now each and every night will end / Dawning in white plum blo…

#96.

(edit)However looked at, / it's a world / to be loathed— / but as l…

#98.

(edit)My mind I send / with the moon / that goes beyond the mounta…

#99.

(edit)Even in a person / most times indifferent / to things around …

#102.

(edit)What else / could have made me / loathe the world? / The one …

#104.

(edit)It's hard to despise / the whole world / as a borrowed lodgin…

#106.

(edit)Because I heard you were someone / who had left the household…

#108.

(edit)Let me die in spring / under the blossoming trees, / let it b…

#110.

(edit)Live through the long years, / pine, and pray for me / in my …

#112.

(edit)Fishermen home from / their day's work: / on a bed of seaweed…

#114.

(edit)He who casts himself away— / has he truly / cast himself away…

#116.

(edit)Even a person free of passion / would be moved / to sadness: …

#117.

(edit)Even to someone / Free of passions, this sadness / Would be a…

#119.

(edit)The sound of the water / is my companion / in this lonely hut…

#121.

(edit)Spring departing— / the birds cry out / and the eyes of the f…

#124.

(edit)Under the same roof / Prostitutes were sleeping— / The moon a…

#126.

(edit)Dividing like clam / and shell, I leave for Futami— / Autumn …

#128.

(edit)Turbulent the sea— / across to Sado stretches / the Milky Way

#130.

(edit)Plagued by fleas and lice, / I hear the horses stalling / Rig…

#131.

(edit)They sowed a whole field, / And only then did I leave / Saigy…

#132.

(edit)The passing spring, / Birds mourn, / Fish weep / With tearful…

#133.

(edit)When the girls had planted / A square of paddy-field, / I ste…

#134.

(edit)The old mere! / A frog jumping in / The sound of the water

#135.

(edit)Into the ancient pond / A frog jumps / Water's sound!

#136.

(edit)The old pond. / A frog jumps in— / Plop!

#137.

(edit)The ancient pond / A frog leaps in / The sound of the water

#138.

(edit)The old pond, ah! / A frog jumps in: / The water's sound.

#139.

(edit)Oh thou unrippled pool of quietness / Upon whose shimmering s…

#142.

(edit)Underneath the trees / soups and salads are buried / in cherr…

#144.

(edit)The true beginnings / Of poetry—an Oku / Rice-planting song

#145.

(edit)The fleas and lice— / and next to my pillow, / a pissing horse

#147.

(edit)Ah, tranquility! / Penetrating the very rock, / a cicada's voice

#148.

(edit)How still it is here— / Stinging into the stones, / The locus…

#149.

(edit)willow bare / clear stream dried up / rocks higgledy-piggledy

#150.

(edit)I'm like a clam pulled apart / Its body ripped from the shell…

#153.

(edit)The man in the moon / Has become homeless; / Rain clouded night

#168.

(edit)O snail, / Climb Mt. Fuji, / But slowly, slowly!

#170.

(edit)An autumn eve; / There is joy too, / In loneliness

#172.

(edit)There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; There is n…

#174.

(edit)I am one / Who eats his breakfast, / Gazing at morning glories.

#177.

(edit)Facing the morning glories / I eat my grub / like a man

#181.

(edit)Deep autumn; / My neighbor,— / How does he live?

#182.

(edit)Deep autumn— / my neighbor, / how does he live, I wonder?

#183.

(edit)I am the kind of man / who eats his rice / at the morning glo…

#184.

(edit)My morning face set upon the flowers, / I’m the man eating hi…

#186.

(edit)Ah, kankodori! / In my sadness, / Deepen thou my solitude.

#187.

(edit)Not this human sadness, / cuckoo, / but your solitary cry.

#189.

(edit)Though I would move the grave, / my teary cry / was lost in t…

#190.

(edit)Shake, O grave! / My wailing voice / Is the autumn wind.

#192.

(edit)As flowers are brilliant but fall, / who could remain constan…

#195.

(edit)From all these trees, / in the salads, the soup, everywhere, …

#199.

(edit)Sad nodes / we're all the bamboo's children / in the end

#201.

(edit)Young bamboo; / my girl at Hashimoto, / is she in or not?

#202.

(edit)“Where there is no sabishisa there will be sadness.” This is …

#204.

(edit)The knell of the bells at the Gion temple / Echoes the imper…

#207.

(edit)Though fragrant are the colors, / Yet shall the flowers scatt…

#208.

(edit)古池 / 蛙飛び込む / 水の音

#209.

(edit)In this world / We walk on the roof of hell / Gazing at flowers

#210.

(edit)The whitebait / opens its eye / in the net of the law

#212.

(edit)Fleeting dreams / an octopus making its home in a trap / a su…

#214.

(edit)Iam one / Eating my meal / While gazing at the glories of the…

#217.

(edit)Should I take it in my hand, / it would disappear with my hot…

#218.

(edit)Sweet-smelling rice fields! / To our right as we push through…

#220.

(edit)On the one ton temple bell / a moon-moth, folded into sleep, …

#222.

(edit)The summer grasses— / Of the brave soldiers' dreams / The aft…