Talk:Frog Poem

Information about this edition
Edition:	Various (original in 1686)
Source:	Poems about, Basho: Haiku.
Contributor(s):	169.244.143.115, Meladina, Dmitrismirnov
Level of progress:	50%: apparently complete, but not thoroughly proofread or verified.
Notes:
Proofreaders:	Pathoschild

Translations and Copyright

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@Prosfilaes: Thanks for bringing this up at WS:CV; let's see what we can discover about these translations. Unless I'm mistaken, any translations later than 1964 are pretty much guaranteed to be copyvio unless explicitly specified otherwise; others can be checked for renewals.

Frog Poem (Saisho) ("literal" translation) by Fumiko Saisho: from "A Few Notes on Haikai and the Japanese Mind." Cultural Nippon, Japan, June 1935
Frog Poem (Aitken) by Robert Aitken: from A Zen Wave: Basho’s Haiku and Zen; New York: Weatherhill (1978), Delete
Frog Poem (Aston) by William George Aston: from A History of Japanese Literature (Aston)/Book 6/Chapter 4, Keep
Frog Poem (Behn) by Harry Behn: from Cricket Songs: Japanese Haiku, New York, 1964
Frog Poem (Blyth) by R. H. Blyth: from Haiku. Vol. 1. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1949
Frog Poem (Bownas and Thwaite) by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite: from The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, Middlesex, 1964
Frog Poem (Bryan) by John Bryan: from The Literature of Japan, New York, 1929
Frog Poem (Corman) by Cid Corman: from Cool Gong, Ashland, Massachusetts, USA, 1959
Frog Poem (Chamberlain) by Basil Hall Chamberlain: from Japanese Poetry. London: John Murray, 1910 Keep
Frog Poem (Hamill) by Sam Hamill (not "Alan Chng"): from The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets (2000) Delete
Frog Poem (O'Donnol) by Dion O'Donnol: from "One sheet (green) printing of 'the frog poem' as used in my poetry classes in the 1963-1969 period" (as quoted by Sako) Delete
Frog Poem (Einbond) by Bernard Lionel Einbond: see note on Sato below
Frog Poem (Fraser) by G. S. Fraser: from "The Frog and the Pond: First Steps in Japanese Poetics", Nine, Scotland (?), Summer-Autumn 1952
Frog Poem (Hass) by Robert Hass: from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, 1994 Delete
Frog Poem (Hearn) by Lafcadio Hearn: from Exotics and Retrospectives. Boston: Little, Brown, 1898 Keep
Frog Poem (Higginson) by William J. Higginson: from Itadakimasu, New York, 1971 Delete
Frog Poem (Kahn) by Robert Kahn, added by 209.174.183.5, possibly an original translation
Frog Poem (Houédard) by Sylvester Houédard a.k.a "dsh": apparently first published as a poster, 1965 Delete
Frog Poem (Kirkup) by James Kirkup: see note on Sato below
Frog Poem (Maeda) by Maeda Cana: from "On Translating the Haiku Form" in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (1969) Delete
Frog Poem (Masaoka) by Masaoka Shiki: from Shiki's college paper "Baseo as a Poet", thought to be dated 1892... but possibly not published until 1978 in Shiki Zenshū, Tokyo
Frog Poem (Matsuo-Allard) by R. Clarence Matsuo-Allard: see note on Sato below
Frog Poem (Miner) by Earl Miner: from Japanese Linked Poetry, Princeton (USA), 1979 Delete
Frog Poem (Big Mountain) by Jozy Big Mountain, added by 169.244.143.115, probably the same user as User:HaikuMan, possibly an original translation
Frog Poem (Nikt) by Clare Nikt: see note on Sato below
Frog Poem (Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai) by Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai: from Haikai and Haiku, Tokyo, 1958.
Frog Poem (Nitobe) by Nitobe Inazō: from Japanese Traits and Foreign Imfluences, London, 1927
Frog Poem (Reichhold) by Jane Reichhold: from A Discussion about the "Old pond" Haiku by Basho, 2010 Delete
Frog Poem (Rexroth) by Kenneth Rexroth: from One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New York, 1955
Frog Poem (Seidensticker) by Edward G. Seidensticker: from Hihongo-rashii Hyōgen kara Eigo-rashii Hyōgen e, Tokyo, 1962
Frog Poem (Shirane) by Haruo Shirane: from Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashô. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998 Delete
Frog Poem (Sitnitsky) by Alexander Sitnitsky: GFDL, not published elsewhere, may be out of scope
Frog Poem (Smirnov) by Dmitri Smirnov: GFDL, original translation
Frog Poem (Stewart) by Harold Stewart: from A Net of Fireflies, Tokyo, 1960
Frog Poem (Stryk) by Lucien Stryk: from Haiku of the Japanese Masters, Derry, Pennsylvania, USA, 1977 Delete
Frog Poem (Suzuki) by Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki: from "Zen and Japanese Culture", Princeton, USA, 1938
Frog Poem (Ueda) by Makoto Ueda: from Matsuo Bashō: The Master Haiku Poet, New York, USA, 1970 Delete
Frog Poem (Watts) by Alan Watts: from "Haiku", first broadcast on radio around 1958, released as a vinyl record in 1959, and then published in print form in 1960 (USA)
Frog Poem (Yasuda) by Kenneth Yasuda: from A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems together with Original Haiku. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947
Frog Poem (Yuasa) by Nobuyuki Yuasa: from Bashô: The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966 Delete

Many of these were published in One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English by Hiroaki Sato (Japan, 1983). There are two groups of translations in this work: those collected from previous publications, and those collected from personal acquaintances. Translations marked as "see note on Sato below" are of the latter sort. Sato notes that "most of it" was published in his article "Variations on a Theme of Basho" in Chanoyu Quarterly issue 19 (Japan, 1978).

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