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Translation:Frog Poem (Sitnitsky)

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Frog Poem
by Matsuo Basho, translated from Japanese by Alexander Sitnitsky and Wikisource
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An ancient pond.
O! a frog jumps in –
a splash...


1681/6, transl. 2003


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