Basho, First Spring Rain Poem by Dennis Ryan
Basho, First Spring Rain
Monday evening, March 25,2019 at 7: 09 p.m.; Sunday morning, March 31 at 9: 20 a.m.
A first spring rain tonight
reminds me of Basho's poem
beginning "tabibito to...
hatsu shigure"—a first rain,
"a traveler" self-proclaimed
set to begin a winter journey.
Tabibito to
waga no yobaren
hatsu shigure
- Basho
Let my name
be "traveller";
first rains
(Robert Aitken translation)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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10/6/2024 9:28:22 AM # 1.0.0.1119
A well written tribute to Basho... thank you for sharing.
I have been reading Basho's haiku and haibun in English and Japanese for more than 40 years, and have a very deep liking and sympathy for the subject of his work, and his natural observations that went into the writing of many of his poems.