„Das dunkle Meer // und ein Wildentenruf // im verschwommenen Weiß.“
Haiku-Interpretation v. Nino Barbieri
Original jap.: "海くれて鴨のこゑほのかに白し - Umi kurete // kamo no koe // honokani shiroshi."
Matsuo Bashō , eigentlich Matsuo Munefusa , war ein japanischer Dichter. Er gilt als bedeutender Vertreter der japanischen Versform Haiku. Bashō und seine Schüler erneuerten die bis dahin humorvoll spielerische Haikai-Dichtung und erhoben sie in den Rang ernsthafter Literatur. Wikipedia

„Das dunkle Meer // und ein Wildentenruf // im verschwommenen Weiß.“
Haiku-Interpretation v. Nino Barbieri
Original jap.: "海くれて鴨のこゑほのかに白し - Umi kurete // kamo no koe // honokani shiroshi."
„Alter Weiher // Ein Frosch springt // Wasser platscht.“
Haiku-Interpretation v. Nino Barbieri
Original jap.: "古池や蛙飛び込む水の音- Furu ike ya // kawazu tobikomu // mizu no oto."
„Der Mond und der Schnee. // Ich lebe und betrachte das Schöne. // Das Jahr geht zu Ende.“
Haiku-Interpretation v. Nino Barbieri.
Original jap.: "月雪とのさばりけらし年の暮 - Tsuki yuki to // nosabari kerashi // toshi no kure."
„Schnell ist der Mond // Die Blätter der Bäume // halten den Regen auf.“
Haiku-Interpretation v. Nino Barbieri
Original jap.: "月はやしこずゑはあめを持ちながら- Tsuki hayashi // kozue wa ame wo // mochinagara."
„Der alte Kirschbaum // blüht; eine Erinnerung // an vergangene Jahre.“
Haiku-Interpretation v. Nino Barbieri.
Original jap.: "姥桜さくや老後の思ひ出 – Ubazakura // saku ya rōgo no // omoiide."
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
Bashō Matsuo buch Oku no Hosomichi
Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings, Boston, 2000, p. 3 (Translation: Sam Hamill)
Oku no Hosomichi
Variante: The journey itself is my home.
Sick on a journey –
over parched fields
dreams wander on.
Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, London, 1985, p. 81 (Translation: Lucien Stryk)
Travelling, sick
My dreams roam
On a withered moor.
(Unknown translator)
Individual poems
Genjūan no Fu ("Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling") in Donald Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature, p. 374 (Translation: Donald Keene)
Statements
“Who mourns makes grief his master.
Who drinks makes pleasure his master.”
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #41 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/41 of a Saga Diary excerpt (Translation: Robert Hass) <br class="br">Statements <br class="br">Kontext: It rains during the morning. No visitors today. I feel lonely and amuse myself by writing at random. These are the words:<br>Who mourns makes grief his master.<br>Who drinks makes pleasure his master.
“Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together.”
Quelle: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
“Come, see the true
flowers
of this pained world.”
Quelle: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
“Sadly, I part from you;
Like a clam torn from its shell,
I go, and autumn too.”
Quelle: Narrow Road to the Interior
“Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto”
京にても 京なつかしや 時鳥 kyou nitemo kyou natsukashi ya hototogisu Classical Japanese Database, Translation #55 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/55 (Translation: Robert Hass) Bird of time &ndash; in Kyoto, pining for Kyoto. Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, London, 1985, p. 43 (Translation: Lucien Stryk) <br class="br">Individual poems