Comments on: Issa’s haiku in Tokyo: Another frog http://www.japannavigator.com/2006/10/11/issas-haiku-in-tokyo-another-frog/ Guide to Japan by Ad Blankestijn: Sake and food, Kyoto and travel, literature and intercultural affairs. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:13:26 +0900 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ad Blankestijn http://www.japannavigator.com/2006/10/11/issas-haiku-in-tokyo-another-frog/comment-page-1/#comment-2433 Ad Blankestijn Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:16:52 +0000 http://www.japannavigator.com/?p=178#comment-2433 I think this is the haiku by Issa you are referring to: just sitting there a frog viewing the mountain [yuzen to shite | yama wo miru | kaeru kana] The above translation is by C.W. Nichol and can be found on the poem stone of this haiku in Kashiwabara, the birthplace of Issa. I think this is the haiku by Issa you are referring to:

just sitting there
a frog
viewing the mountain

[yuzen to shite | yama wo miru | kaeru kana]

The above translation is by C.W. Nichol and can be found on the poem stone of this haiku in Kashiwabara, the birthplace of Issa.

]]> By: Muryl http://www.japannavigator.com/2006/10/11/issas-haiku-in-tokyo-another-frog/comment-page-1/#comment-2313 Muryl Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:39:56 +0000 http://www.japannavigator.com/?p=178#comment-2313 Wonderful site. Did Issa write this frog haiku that I have been searching for the first line? .................... gazing at the far hills a tiny frog Wonderful site. Did Issa write this frog haiku that I have been searching for the first line?

………………..
gazing at the far hills
a tiny frog

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