Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts

Monday, 1 September 2014

Sam Hamill's page 44 translation of a tanka by Yosano Akiko


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Japanese Kanji Recognition Mnemonics through poetry : KanjiRecog

Recognize and recall kanji read in Japanese poetry 


The original Japanese poem for the tanka on page 44 of Sam Hamill's "River of Stars" volume of Yosano Akiko poetry translations is

こころみにわかき唇ふれて見れば冷かなるよしら蓮の露

taking こころみ as 試み

New kanji might be lips, cold water, lotus and dew.

唇 冷 蓮 露


KKLC KKLD_2-Ed
1847   2385    唇
0675   0061    冷
0585   2047    蓮
1907   2454    露

KKLC Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, 2013, Andrew Scott Conning
KKLD 2nd ed. Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, 2013, Jack Halpern


Sunday, 31 August 2014

Kenneth Rexroth's translation of Yosano Akiko tanka vii


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Akiko Yosano


Yosano Akiko's tanka, which is vii on page 9 in the Kenneth Rexroth "100 More" volume of Japanese poetry in translation, in the original is :

とき髪に
室むつまじの
百合のかをり
消えをあやぶむ
夜の淡紅色よ




Saturday, 30 August 2014

Abridged Midaregami uncommon kanji list


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The 23 uncommon kanji in my previous post are (per Perapera plugin for Firefox using the kanjidic2 of edrg.org )



lean on, rest against
イ、 キ、 よ(る)、 たの(む)
Nelson 476
New Nelson 244
Skip Pattern 1-2-8
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 2a8.26
Unicode 501A


halter and bit
ロク、 くつわ
Nelson 5089
New Nelson 545
Skip Pattern 1-9-2
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 2g9.2
Unicode 52D2


roll, wind, coil, turn pages, roll up sleeves, strip off, be turned, be rolled up
ケン、 ま(く)、 ま(くる)、 まく(る)、 めく(る)、 まく(れる)
Nelson 1933
New Nelson 2193
Skip Pattern 1-3-9
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary -
Unicode 6372


shuttle
サ、 ひ
Nelson 2273
New Nelson 2693
Skip Pattern 1-4-7
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 4a7.11
Unicode 68AD


wild pear tree, crabapple tree
トウ、 やまなし
New Nelson 2718
Skip Pattern 2-5-7
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 3n9.1
Unicode 68E0


hut

Nelson 4114
New Nelson 3903
Skip Pattern 3-4-12
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 2m14.1
Unicode 76E7


eyelids
ケン、 まぶた
Nelson 3160
New Nelson 3966
Skip Pattern 1-5-13
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 5c13.4
Unicode 77BC


round basket
キョ
名乗り はこ
New Nelson 4291
Skip Pattern 2-6-7
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 6f7.5
Unicode 7B65


box
キョウ、 はこ
New Nelson 4323
Skip Pattern 2-6-9
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 6f9.10
Unicode 7BCB


silk gauze
ロ、 リョ
Nelson 3542
New Nelson 4498
Skip Pattern 1-6-7
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 6a7.4
Unicode 7D7D


(insect) wings, fly, merely
シ、 はね、 つばさ
Nelson 2040
New Nelson 4678
Skip Pattern 3-4-6
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 2k8.4
Unicode 7FC5


luxurious grass, a smartweed
シン、 リク、 リョウ、 たで
New Nelson 5166
Skip Pattern 2-3-11
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 3k11.10
Unicode 84FC


an edible fern
ラ、 ビ、 ぜんまい
Nelson 4057
New Nelson 5209
Skip Pattern 2-3-13
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 3k13.13
Unicode 8587


a kind of grass
バ、 ショウ、 ショク、 ソウ、 みずたで
Nelson 4071
New Nelson 5220
Skip Pattern 2-3-13
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 3k13.20
Unicode 8594


quilt, bedding
キン、 ふすま
Nelson 465
New Nelson 5428
Skip Pattern 2-2-8
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 2a8.38
Unicode 887E


sleeve, foot (of hill), edge
ベイ、 ケツ、 たまと、 たもと
Nelson 4216
New Nelson 5426
Skip Pattern 1-5-4
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 5e4.2
Unicode 8882


skirt, (kokuji)
つま
Nelson 4246
New Nelson 5470
Skip Pattern 1-5-8
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 5e8.5
Unicode 8904

谿
valley
ケイ、 たに、 たにがわ
Nelson 4464
New Nelson 5734
Skip Pattern 1-10-7
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary -
Unicode 8C3F


tap with the feet, ruins
チョク、 タク
Nelson 4590
New Nelson 5914
Skip Pattern 1-7-13
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 7d13.1
Unicode 8E85


squat, sit on heels, loiter
テキ、 しゃが(む)、 たちもとお(る)
Nelson 4594
New Nelson 5920
Skip Pattern 1-7-15
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 7d14.1
Unicode 8E91


mist, haze, fog
アイ、 もや
Nelson 5074
New Nelson 6555
Skip Pattern 2-8-16
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 8d16.1
Unicode 9744


sideburns
ビン、 ヒン
Nelson 5266
New Nelson 6819
Skip Pattern 2-10-14
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 7b17.1
Unicode 9B22


nightingale
オウ、 うぐいす
Nelson 5364
New Nelson 6994
Skip Pattern 2-10-11
Tuttle Kanji Dictionary 11b10.9
Unicode 9DAF

The others can be found in Heisig or in the full Halpern dictionary.


Friday, 1 August 2014

After all, in the end : 竟


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This kanji must be in a Japanese translation of a foreign language poem :

 

if only as "after all" or "in the end" or "at last" or "finally" or ...


Tuesday, 16 April 2013

kanji over the moon


 
The 100+ Basho haiku mentioning "moon" involve only 376 kanji - and only 45 of those are not in top 3k+ so some reading can be done with a command of only about 500 kanji  — if the compound kanji words formed with some of those 376 are not too obscure or place names ( checked using the Wakan clipboard tool and one of my Basho CURL web pages which also give the poems in hiragana and romaji text. )

The first 8 of the haiku on the "moon" page at kanji.aule-browser.com involve 36 kanji of which only 1 is not "common" in Japanese newspapers : "snoring" !

 





Tuesday, 25 September 2012

tell tale poem poetry

Some kanji with UCS (Unicode) and Henshall numbers ; these can be used in the Search at aule-browser.

, 8A00,  274, say ことば

, 544A,  481, revelation, tell, inform, announce

, 53E5,  655, phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku  俳句 .

, 541F, 1182, versify, singing, recital

, 6587,   68, sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

, 8A13,  656, instruction, Japanese character reading, explanation, read

楷, 6977, 2126, square character style, correctness

, 5B57,   28, character, letter, word, section of village

, 7AE0,  318, badge, chapter, composition, poem, design

, 8A60, 1016, recitation, poem, song, composing

, 8A69,  291, poem, poetry

, 8A5E,  879, part of speech, words, poetry

誌, 8A8C,  880, document, records

編, 7DE8,  785, compilation, knit, plait, braid, twist, editing, completed poem, part of a book

賦, 8CE6, 1758, levy, ode, prose, poem, tribute, installment

首, 9996,  139, neck, counter for songs and poems

本, 672C,   70, book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things

帳, 5E33,  347, notebook, account book, album, curtain, veil, net, tent

課, 8AB2,  433, chapter, lesson, section, department, division, counter for chapters (of a book)

, 8A9E,  112, word, speech, language

辞, 8F9E,  500, resign, word, term, expression

式, 5F0F,  295, style, ceremony, rite, function, method, system, form, expression

識, 8B58,  698, discriminating, know, write

軸, 8EF8, 1330, axis, pivot, stem, stalk, counter for book scrolls

行, 884C,  118, going, journey  詩の行 line of a poem

久, 4E45,  647, long time, old story

話, 8A71,  221, tale, talk  ·  compare http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=8BDD

記, 8A18,   95, scribe, account, narrative

修, 4FEE,  704, discipline, conduct oneself well, study, master

線, 7DDA,  329, line, track