Frog Poem

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Frog poem  (1680s) 
by Matsuo Bashō, translated by various
The most famous haiku by Bashō, composed in 1681/6 (IB-265, HS-270, JR-152).
Frog and Mouse by Getsuju Japan, late 18th-early 19th

Original (Japanese)

(Kanji)
古池や蛙飛こむ水のおと

(Hiragana)
ふるいけやかはづとびこむみづのおと

(Romaji)
Furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

Translations

Literal

Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya, ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into) mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)
           (Fumiko Saisho)


Figurative (various)


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The old pond;
A frog jumps in —
The sound of the water.
    (Robert Aitken)



An ancient pond!
With a sound from the water
Of the frog as it plunges in.
    (W. G. Aston)



An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
    (Harry Behn)



The old pond:
a frog jumps in, –
the sound of the water.
    (R. H. Blyth)



An old pond
A frog jumps in —
Sound of water.
    (Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite)



Listen! A frog
Jumping into the stillness
Of an ancient pond!
    (Dorothy Briton)



There is the old pond!
Lo, into it jumps a frog:
hark, water's music!
    (John Bryan)



old pond
frog leaping
splash
    (Cid Corman)



The old pond, aye!
And the sound of a frog
leaping into the water.
   (Basil Hall Chamberlain)



At the ancient pond
a frog plunges into
the sound of water
   (Alan Chng)



The silent old pond
a mirror of ancient calm,
a frog-leaps-in splash.
    (Dion O'Donnol)



Antic pond-
frantic frog jumps in-
gigantic sound.
    (Bernard Lionel Einbond)



The old pond, yes, and
A frog is jumping into
The water, and splash.
    (G. S. Fraser)



The old pond
A frog jumped in,
Kerplunk!
    (Allen Ginsberg)



The old pond -
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.
    (Robert Hass)



Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water
    (Lafcadio Hearn)



Old pond...
a frog jumps in
water's sound.
    (William J. Higginson)



Ancient pond, silent
a frog leaps into it, and
- the water's high note!
    (Robert Kahn)



The ancient pond
A frog leaps in
The sound of the water.
    (Donald Keene)



pond
frog
plop!
    (James Kirkup)



Old pond
a frog in-leaping
water note
    (Maeda Cana)



The old mere!
A frog jumping in
The sound of water
    (Masaoka Shiki)



ancient pond —
a frog jumping
into its splash
   (R. Clarence Matsuo-Allard)



The still old pond
and as a frog leaps in it
the sound of a splash
   (Earl Miner)



Old pond,
Young frog.
Splash!
    (Jozy Big Mountain)



Hear the lively song
of the frog in
BrrrBrrrBrrptyBrrrBrrrrrrrrrrIp
Plash!
    (Clare Nikt)



The old pond!
A frog jumps in—
Sound of the water.
   (Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai)



An old pond
A frog jumps in
A splash of water.
   (Nitobe Inazō)



old pond
a frog jumps into
the sound of water
   (Jane Reichhold)



An old pond —
The sound
Of a diving frog.
   (Kenneth Rexroth)



The quiet pond
A Frog leaps in,
The sound of the water.
   (Edward G. Seidensticker)



Аn old pond...
a frog leaps in,
the sound of water
    (Haruo Shirane)



An ancient pond.
O! a frog jumps in –
a splash...
    (Alexander Sitnitsky - GFDL)



At the ancient pond
look: a little frog jumps in –
just a gentle splash…
    (Dmitri Smirnov - GFDL)



The old green pond is silent; here the hop
Of a frog plumbs the evening stillness: plop!
   (Harold Stewart)



Old pond,
leap-splash –
a frog.
    (Lucien Stryk)



The old pond, ah!
A frog jumps in:
The water's sound.
    (D. T. Suzuki)



The old pond –
a frog leaps in,
and a splash
    (Makoto Ueda)



The old pond,
A frog jumps in:
Plop!
     (Alan Watts)



Ancient pond unstirred
Into which a frog has plunged,
A splash was heard.
    (Kenneth Yasuda)



Breaking the silence
оf an ancient pond,
a frog jumped into water–
а deep resonance.
    (Nobuyuki Yuasa)
 




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