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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: 13 December 2010 21:31 (UTC)As to how, I got into it slightly sideways: I happened to be reading up on Japanese poetry at the same time as I was starting to learn modern Japanese in earnest, so I started trying to pick apart the poems, first doing versions based on paraphrases, then translations based on modern Japanese commentaries, and now more or less on my own with consultation of commentaries (because I still miss a lot without them). So, yes, I'm learning two languages at once -- the verbal forms in classical Japanese being sufficiently different to merit the category, despite the large overlap otherwise in syntax and lexemes. The comparison I make is modern Japanese:classical Japanese::modern English::Shakespeare only with Old English verbs.
---L.