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translations

The old pond!
A frog leapt into --
List, the water sound!
--Yone Noguchi




Ah! le vieil etang!
Et le bruit de l'eau
Ou saute la grenouille!
--Michel Revon


An ancient pond!
A frog leaps in;
The sound of the water!
--Minoru Toyoda



Into an old pond
A frog took a sudden plunge,
Then is heard a splash
--Inazo Nitobe











these translations are from here. yone noguchi we already talked about with regards to the friendship he had with yeats. michel revon was among the earliest french poets to become enamoured with and influenced by haiku and other forms of japanese poetry.


(outtakes here)