Musings from the Tower of Academia.
A still library.A student opens a book -the crack of its spine.
Basho wroteFuruike ya, kawazu tobikomu, mizu no oto.which Nobuyuki Yuasa, in his introduction to The Narrow Road to the Deep North translated asBreaking the silenceOf an ancient pond,A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.and Lucien Stryk, more concisely,Old pond,leap-splash --a frog.
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Basho wrote
Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu, mizu no oto.
which Nobuyuki Yuasa, in his introduction to The Narrow Road to the Deep North translated as
Breaking the silence
Of an ancient pond,
A frog jumped into water -
A deep resonance.
and Lucien Stryk, more concisely,
Old pond,
leap-splash --
a frog.
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