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As language practice, I like to translate poetry. My current project is Chinese, with practice focused on Tang Dynasty poetry. Previously this was classical Japanese, most recently working through the Kokinshu anthology (archived here). Suggestions, corrections, and questions always welcome.
There's also original pomes in the journal archives.
As language practice, I like to translate poetry. My current project is Chinese, with practice focused on Tang Dynasty poetry. Previously this was classical Japanese, most recently working through the Kokinshu anthology (archived here). Suggestions, corrections, and questions always welcome.
There's also original pomes in the journal archives.
Links
- Index of Chinese translations
- Index of Japanese translations
- One Hundred People, One Poem Each (translator)
- Ice Melts in the Wind: The Seasonal Poems of the Kokinshu (translator)
- These Things Called Dreams: The Poems of Ono no Komachi (translator)
- Important Beyond All This: 100 Poems by 100 People (editor)
- Story Lines: A Book of Narrative Verse (editor)
- First League Out: Story Poems of the Sea (editor)
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Date: 12 September 2022 17:52 (UTC)Longer answer: the humongo* anthology Complete Tang Poems has two chapters of poems ascribed to 鬼, spirits of the dead. I started poking at this a couple weeks ago, and discovered some of this stuff is amazing, both folklorically and fannishly. I mean, there's a poem that was "thrown at" a general by a suit of armor -- I mean, who can resist that? No one -- and another "written in blood" on a wall. I've translated a dozen-plus so far and starting to post the first drafts. Per my usual mode, I'll post a compilation of more polished revisions in my other journal when I get enough -- I'm planning on the first such installment being my first thirteen poems, because ghosts.
* 49,000-odd poems covering 360 years.