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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: 25 January 2010 20:05 (UTC)It's a strange poem (not your translation, which actually I like as much as many of them) because it reverses expectations. You expect the moon and the season to be the same, timeless, and a person only to change--but he's saying only he's unchanged, and they have. Alas, all the world is inconstant; only I am left with unchanging feeling!!