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I'm looking for a certain haiku about kusarigama in Japanese
The haiku I'm looking for is probably of an anonymous author. I got a hint on a Japanese message board that it's maybe Musashi's one and I should find it in Eiji Yoshikawa's famous novel, but it's not ...
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Do traditional Japanese haikus always describe a moment?
I am currently reading The Heart of Haiku by Jane Hirshfield. In it, there are many examples of haikus by Bashō. In them, they always appear to give reference to a time, either explicitly or through ...
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What is the meaning of this tanka by Saigo Hoshi?
What is the meaning of the following tanka by Saigo Hoshi which I came to read today?
Now indeed I know
That when we said "remember"
and we swore it so,
it was in "we will forget"
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