Thursday, April 12, 2007


Translations based on Issa zenshû (Nagano: Shinano Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1976-79) 9 volumes. Some of the translations first appeared in Issa, Cup-of-Tea Poems and Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa.



.大雪を杓子でとかす子ども哉
ôyuki wo shakushi de tokasu kodomo kana

melting the big snow
with a spoon...
a child

A shakushi is a sort of serving spoon or ladle for rice or soup. See Kogo dai jiten (Shogakukan 1983) 822.



for my daughter and my granddaughter

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