Japanese Haiku Translation
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
, Posted by panda at 11:46 PM
Have you ever heard about Haiku?
Haiku are a style of poetic writing using a small number of words to convey a much deeper feeling or eomotion. Those haiku explore many themes and continue to be popular both in Japan and globally. It is a 17 syllable poem of three lines: 5-7-5, which is pronunced Go hichi Go in Japanese. What it means by this is that Haiku starts with 5 syllables, followed by 7 syllables, and followed by 5 syllables.
Take a look at the following Haiku, which is written by a famous master of Haiku, Matuo Basho.

Furuikeya is 5 syllables.
Kawazutobikomu is 7 syllbables.
Mizunooto is 5 syllables.
Yet, it does't mean the number of Japanese symbols are 5-7-5.
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