Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Fuyu No Hi (2003) [Short Film]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRzcaboJprw

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437198/


English translation by Haruo Shirane at Columbia University. 

Winter Days

The rains of the long journey have torn my hat, and my coat has crumbled in the daily storms.

Accustomed as I am to extreme poverty, I feel sorry for myself.

Suddenly remembering that master of mad verse who travelled long ago in this province, I wrote...

mad verse: in the withering gusts a wanderer - how much like Chikusai I have become! - Basho. animation: Yuriy Norshteyn

who's that? Sasanqua spraying over a rain hat - Yasui. animation: Kihachiro Kawamoto

making the Master of Early Dawn construct a brewery - Kakei. animation: Fumio Oi

a red-haired horse shaking dew off its mane - Jugo. animation: Tatsutoshi Nomura

Korean grass the long thin blades colorless - Tokoku. animation: Shn-ichi Suzuki

in the scattered light harvesting rice plants in the fields - Shohei. animation: Haru Fukushima

my grass hut -- where I offer the heron lodging - Yasui. animation: Takuya Ishida

having to hide while the hair grows back - Basho. animation: Raoul Servais

"the pain of deception" she thought squeezing her dry breasts - Jugo. animation: Noriko Morita

by an unfading stupa sobbing with heavy heart - Kakei. animation: Tatsuo Shimamura

a silhouette in the early dawn cold lighting a fire - Basho. animation: Yoichi Kotabe, Reiko Okuyama

an empty house the owners disappeared from poverty - Tokoku. animation: Aleksandr Petrov

in a rice field the Koman willow dropping its leaves - Kakei. animation: Maya Yonesho

a man pulling the boat in the mist - is he lame? - Yasui. animation: Yoji Kuri

at dusk gazing sideways at the thin moon - Tokoku. animation: Uruma Delvi

retiring from court to a street of gossipy neighbours - Jugo. animation: Seiichi Hayashi

asking the Second Nun about the cherry trees in full bloom at the imperial palace - Yasui. animation: Azuru Isshiki

"butterflies in the thick weeds" she wept blowing her nose - Basho. animation: Bretislav Pojar

a palanquin: behind a bamboo blind faintly a face - Jugo. animation: Katsushi Boda

"now's the time!" releasing an arrow of resentment - Kakei. animation: Masahiro Katayama

a pine in memory of a bandit bends broken by the wind - Basho. animation: Mark Baker

for a while it lasted a stream named for Sogi - Tokoku. animation: Yuichi Ito

doffing a rain hat to soak deliberately in the northern showers - Kakei. animation: Keita Kurosaka

parting the withered winter grass a single green endive - Yasui. animation: Reiko Yokosuka

shattered white shards - someone's bones or what? - Tokoku. animation: Yuko Asano

squid shells divination in a barbarian country - Jugo. animation: I.K.I.F.

I can't solve sorrow's mystery a cuckoo - Yasui. animation: Bairong Wang

a long night consuming an urn of autumn water - Basho. animation: Isao Takahata

at the temple lodging of Japan's Li Po-moon gazing - Jugo. animation: Norio Hikone

a lute player sticking rose of Sharon in his hood - Kakei. animation: Masaaki Mori

an offering to the traces of a dead ox grass at dusk - Basho. animation: Taku Furukawa

carrying on the head a basket of shad - Tokoku. animation: Co Hoedeman

my prayers to an early dawn to be pregnant - Kakei. animation: Jacques Drouin

today going to the eyebrow ceremony for the younger sister - Yasui. animation: Fusako Yusaki

for the court bath filtering out the Shiga flowers with silk gauze - Tokoku. animation: Koji Yamamura

the walkway reflecting the shadows of wisteria - Jugo. animation: Kihachiro Kawamoto


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