#0447

松風に明け暮れの鐘撞いて
matsu kaze ni ake kure no kane tsuite
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
           
The wind in the pines / Morning and evening / Carries the sound of the temple bell.

(Tr. by John Stevens)
      
Morning and evening, / Striking the temple bell, / Wind in the pines.

(Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)
     
In pine winds at dawn and dusk striking the bell.

(Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
        
Ringing the temple-bell / To the sound of pine trees; / Mornings and evenings. 

(Tr. by Takashi Nonin)

#0446

死をまへに涼しい風
shi o mae ni suzushi i kaze
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
       
El viento frío, / indiferente, / pasa ante la muerte (Tr. de Vicente Haya)
     
Death is before me; / The cool breeze. (Tr. by John Stevens)
      
Before death - / A cool wind. (Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)
    
Before death a cool breeze (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
    
In the face of death, / a cool wind. (Tr. by James Abrams)

#0445

木かげは風がある旅人どうし
kokage ha kaze ga aru tabibito doushi
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
       
In the tree's shade - / A wind, / Travellers both. 

(Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)

#0414

                      Foto: Óscar Díaz

生き残る蠅が私をおぼえている
Ikinokoru hae ga watashi o oboete iru
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
    
Moscas que sobreviven / Y guardan mi memoria
(Tr. y comentario de Vicente Haya)
    
The few flies that remain / Seem to remember me. (Tr. by John Stevens)
     
The few flies that remain / find me familiar. (Tr. by Okami)

#0412

どこからともなく雲が出て来て秋の雲
dokokara tomonaku kumo ga detekite aki no kumo
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
       
From nowhere, / Clouds coming out - / Autumn clouds. 

(Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)
     
From somewhere clouds appear autumn clouds (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)

#0410

どうすることもできない矛盾を風ふく
dō suru koto mo dekinai mujun o kaze fuku
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
          
I can't do anything / (My life of) contradictions / Blown by the wind. (Tr. by John Stevens)
     
Qu’y faire ? / sur mes contradictions / le vent souffle 

(Tr. par Cheng Wing fun et Hervé Collet)

#0409

                   Foto: Óscar Díaz

雨ふるふるさとははだしであるく
ame furu furusato wa hadashi de aruku
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
     
Rain falls; / I walk in my home town, / Barefoot. (Tr. by John Stevens)
     
Raining / in my home town / walking barefoot (Tr. by Burton Watson)
     
My hometown, / In falling rain - / Walking barefoot. (Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)
     
It's raining in my hometown; / I'm walking barefoot. (Tr. by Takashi Nonin)
    
Rain falls in my hometown walk barefoot (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
  
The old home / in the rain ... / I walk barefooted. (Tr. by Kametaro)
   
Sous la pluie / pieds nus / dans mon village natal. (Tr. par Aude Fieschi)
     
Barfuß laufe ich durch den Regen meiner Heimat (Übers. Robert F. Wittkamp)

#0408

あれこれ食べるものはあつて風の一日
arekore taberu mono wa atte kaze no ichinichi
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
         
There's something to eat, / This and that-- / Windy all day. (Tr. by Takashi Nonin)
           
With this and that to eat one windy day (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)

#0401

ふるさとは遠くして木の芽
furusato wa tōku shite ki-no-me
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
    
Home / a long way off / budding trees (Tr. by Burton Watson)
    
My native place / Far away: / The buds on the trees. (Tr. by R. H. Blyth)
    
Far / from my home village / budding trees (Tr. by Gilles Fabre)
   
My native town / Far, far away-- / Burgeoning trees. (Tr. by Takashi Nonin)
    
My hometown’s distant tree buds (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
    
My home is far away, / the sprout of a tree. (Tr. by James Abrams)
   
Have been far from my hometown, / trees around me are in bud. (Tr. by Endoy)

#0399

生えて伸びて咲いてゐる幸福
haete nobite saiteiru koufuku
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
              
Sprouting growing blooming happiness (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)

#0384

岩かげまさしく水が湧いてゐる
iwakage masashiku mizu ga waite iru
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
      
Behind the rocks, / Sure enough, a fountain; / Eureka! (Tr. by Takashi Nonin)
       
From the shadow / Of the rocks / Water wells up. (Tr. by John Stevens)
       
in the shade of the rock / sure to be / water bubbling up (Tr. by Burton Watson)
        
Behind the boulder, / Water trickling, / Just as I thought. 

(Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)

#0382

朝凪の島を二つおく
asanagi no shima o futatsu oku
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
         
Mer d'huile / au matin deux îles / posées là (Tr. par André Vendevenne)

#0377

                      Foto: Óscar Díaz

風の中からかあかあ鴉
kaze no naka kara kaakaa karasu
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
            
Out of the wind caw caw crows (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)

#0367

どうしようもないわたしが歩いてゐる
dō shiyō mo nai watashi ga aruite iru
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
    
There is nothing else I can do; / I walk on and on. (Tr. by John Stevens)

#0366

朝燒雨ふる大根まかう
asayake ame furu daikon makō
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
       
In the early morning rain, / I sow the daikon seeds. (Tr. by John Stevens)
    
Glory of the morning sky / Heralds the coming of rain; / Must sow the seeds of radish
(Tr. by Takashi Nonin)
    
Morning glow rain falls I’ll sow daikon (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
     
Over a red sunrise / a rain is falling, / I will plant radishes. (Tr. by James Abrams)

#0365

ほろほろ酔うて木の葉ふる
horo-horo yōte ko no ha furu
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
    
Slightly tipsy; / The leaves fall / One by one. (Tr. by John Stevens)
  
Happily drunk / tree leaves / drifting down (Tr. by Burton Watson)
   
A soft whirling drunk, / a scattering of leaves. (Tr. by James Abrams)
   
I am drunk, / Mellowly, / The leaves are falling. (Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)
   
Fluttering drunk leaves scatter (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
    
I am tipsy feeling 'horohoro', / while leaves are falling around me. (Tr. by endoy)
   
A little woozy, / leaves fall one by one. (Tr. by Okami)
   
Légèrement ivre / les feuilles des arbres / se dispersent 

(Tr. par Cheng Wing fun et Hervé Collet)
   
Légèrement ivre / une feuille tombe de l'arbre (Tr. par André Vendevenne)
     
Angeheitert wie ich Blätter tänzeln zu Boden (Übers. Robert F. Wittkamp)

#0364

朝焼のうつくしさおわかれする
asayake no utsukushisa owakare suru
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
      
In sunrise beauty, / Saying farewell. (Tr. by Hisashi Miura and James Green)

#0357

波音遠くなり近なり余命いくぶくぞ
namioto tôkunari chikanari yomei ikubukuzo
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
   
Le bruit des vagues / tantôt proche, tantôt lointain / combien de temps encore à vivre ?
(Traductor desconocido)

#0356

あるけば草の実すわれば草の実
arukeba kusa no mi suwareba kusa no mi
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
     
When I walk, weed seeds; / When I sit, weed seeds. (Tr. by John Stevens)
      
I walk and grass seeds I sit and grass seeds (Tr. by Hiroaki Sato)
     
Walking: grasses in seed. / sitting: grasses in seed. (Tr. by Scott Watson)
    
When I walk, / fruit-bearing grasses, / when I sit, / fruit-bearing grasses

(Tr. by James Abrams)

#0355

青葉わけゆく良寛さまも行かしたろ
aoba wake yuku Ryōkan-sama mo ikashitaro
Taneda Santôka (種田 山頭火)
      
I enter the green forest / Thinking of Ryōkan, / Who also passed this way

(Tr. by John Stevens)