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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: 14 September 2022 14:49 (UTC)Her empty room, the candle snuffed—
Behind gauze curtains, time to sleep.
Cried out, she longs to slash her guts.
Her heart—men do not know it.
Hmmm. You have a point.
(And how do you think I'm reading this stuff, but one or two characters at a time? Some of the headnotes, I can almost do a whole phrase without looking something up, but the poems, ha!)