aki no yado

人生や　我が家もただの　秋の宿　 Oh, the Human Life ! my own home just another lodging for autumn

This house of a sword smith is near my home. It gave rise to this haiku.

If you are interested in Japanese swords,
check my article here !


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Still struggeling with the proper English:

The first line is a rather .. strong .. translation of the YA in Japanese.

jinsei ya
wagaya mo tada no
aki no yado

the Japanese version could also read

jinsei ya wgami mo tada no aki no yado

wagami 我が身　... my human body


aki no yado, an inn, a lodging. Herberge in German would be appropriate.


I want to express that my home (anyones home) is just a temporary shelter, like a temporarily used resthouse or hotel on the road of life.
The same holds for the human body (wagami).

And I feel like being in the autumn of my life right now ... close to 60 ... and winter coming soon ...


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Larry qoutes Mark Twain on the subject

"Oh, this human life, this earthy life, this weary life! It is so groveling, and so mean; its ambitions are so paltry, its prides so trivial, its vanities so childish; and the glories that it values and applauds- lord, how empty!"

- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger


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Norman has even translated this haiku into Esperanto

ho, homa vivo!
mia propra hejmo nur
aŭtungastejo

Norman Darlington
Translating Haiku Forum 　


Japanese - Esperanto Dictionary
エスペラント訳日本文学作品目録
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わが宿は蚊の小さきを馳走かな
waga yado wa ka no chiisaki o chisoo kana

In my cottage the mosquitoes are small;
That is all the good cheer I can offer.

For his pupil Aki no Bo, a Buddhist priest of Kanazawa, when visiting Genju-An near Lake Biwa.
..... This verse is interesting as it well represents the poet's simple life.

Classic Haiku:
An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers
Asataro Miyamori
source : books.google.co.jp



source :　languagegallery.blogspot.jp

Feast at my lodging
Celebrate the petiteness
Mosquito boarders
Tr. Sharon Hahn Darlin






at my hut,
all that i have to offer you,
is that the mosquitoes are small
Tr. ? nonature



in my home
even the mosquitoes are small—
feasts for a guest
Tr. Reichhold


dans ma cabane,
tout ce que j'ai à vous offrir
c'est la petitesse des moustiques
Tr. haicoutoujours


(This hokku has the cut marker KANA at the end of line 3.)

. Matsuo Basho - Archives of the WKD .


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