#Haiku Happenings #4: Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Miho Nakane!
小さき穂は小さき蝶呼び秋の草 中根美保
chisaki ho wa chisaki chô yobi aki no kusa
a small spike invites
a small butterfly
autumn grass
Miho Nakane
from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo
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I have a translation extension on my computer and I like to compare what it says the Japanese reads on these posts to the English translation provided. Japanese is obviously a difficult language to translate, and the program usually reflects that, providing some garbled barely comprehensible version. Today it gave a very different translation, but it’s pure poetry in its own right:
“Little ears are little butterflies”
Frank J. Tassone-American Haijin by Frank J. Tassone is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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