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2016年2月12日金曜日

Whooper swan

About Tanaka and Haiku, please see Wikipedia

Hakutyou ha kanasikarazuya sorano oumi no aonimo

somarazu tadayohu

                       ( Tanka by Wakayama bokusui)
                The white seagull
         Is it not saddening
         It the blue of sky
         Or the blue of the sea?
                        Translation by  Donald Lawrence Keen
Of all the nations of the world ,only China has a longer continuous literary history than Japan.
In the category of this Japanese literature has a Japanese phrase of 31 syllables Tanka and a phrase of 17 syllables Haiku.
A certain person checked the kind of the wild bird and the described number of times in a tanka, a haiku from the Muromachi era from in1336)to the present era.
According to it, it was 35 kinds of wild birds and 176 poem in 6,186 poems.
About swan merely performs one.
Finish wintering,  they begun to get back to their home country.

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