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A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Friday 15 April 2022
easter break
Im on easter break but hopefully I have use that time to finish new translations or poem cards for us
Tuesday 5 April 2022
Cherry Blossoms are a lesson
#densutejo #haiku #sakura #japanesepoetry
HANA WA YO NO
TAMESHI NI SAKU YA
HITOSAKARI
Den Sutejo
Flowers for this world
a lesson their blossoming
Brief prosperity
The translation is mine
(copyright J.Vaux 2022)
Hana is flowers and usually in haiku cherry blossom sakura
Yo here is world not leave
I take the no as being for not of in English
It can function as both in Japanese
Tameshi can mean example precedent experience test trial
Saku the verb to blossom
I think an example being a lesson works best in English due to the final line.
Hitosakari hito plus sakari is one of those words that could be translated by a whole sentence! Something that prospers flourishes is at its best just once or for a brief time.
Sakari is probably from the verb sakaru rather than saku.
This seems to be a choice invoking the word sakura without actually using it?
One translaor has this as temporary prosperity but I hope brief is allowable and its usage along with lesson actually enabled me to have it be meaningful in English and follow the 5 - 7 - 5 format of Japanese!
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