{"id":342,"date":"2007-04-02T19:24:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/haiku\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:24:45","slug":"haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day – haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"theAs I’m sure many of you know, haiku (\u4ff3\u53e5) are short Japanese poems made of of 17 syllables usually in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. The only Japanese haiku I can remember is:<\/p>\n

\u53e4\u6c60\u3084\u3000(furu ike ya)
\n\u86d9\u98db\u3073\u3053\u3080\u3000(kawazu tobikomu)
\n\u6c34\u306e\u97f3 (mizu no oto)<\/p>\n

An old pond
\na frog jumps in
\nsplash!<\/em><\/p>\n

There are many other English versions of this famous haiku by Matsuo Bash\u014d (\u677e\u5c3e\u82ad\u8549) here<\/a>. It’s amazing the number of different ways such a seemingly simple poem can be translated.<\/p>\n

Haiku are not only written in Japanese. Non-Japanese haiku don’t always have exactly 17 syllables, but they usually a similar structure to the Japanese ones. Here are a few examples I came across recently in Scots<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Reid cluds lemin
\nat keek-o-day – refleckit
\nin the cray glaur<\/p>\n

Red clouds glowing
\nat sunrise – reflected
\nin the pigsty mud<\/em><\/p>\n

Hauf-road up the glen
\na daurk wee lochan –
\na cran tentie<\/p>\n

Halfway up the glen
\na dark little loch –
\na heron watchful<\/em><\/p>\n

Birlin doon
\nthe rowth o gean blume
\ntaigles a bummer<\/p>\n

Swirling down
\nthe plenteous cherry blossom
\ndelays a bee <\/em><\/p>\n

Do you know of any haiku in other languages? Or have you written any yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’m sure many of you know, haiku (\u4ff3\u53e5) are short Japanese poems made of of 17 syllables usually in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. The only Japanese haiku I can remember is: \u53e4\u6c60\u3084\u3000(furu ike ya) \u86d9\u98db\u3073\u3053\u3080\u3000(kawazu tobikomu) \u6c34\u306e\u97f3 (mizu no oto) An old pond a frog jumps in splash! There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,10,38,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-language","category-poetry","category-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}