HUMANIORA TARTUENSIA No. 2.B.1 (2001) ISSN 1406-6203 http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/
A CROW ON A BARE BRANCH: A COMPARISON OF MATSUO BASHŌ’S HAIKU “KARE-EDA-NI…”
AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Elin Sütiste
Introduction This paper aims to describe, compare and analyse different shifts that have occurred in the translation of Matsuo Bashō’s haiku “Kare-eda-ni…” into English. With the help of close reading, attention is paid to the interference of the original haiku’s features (such as
syllables, seasonal word kigo, cutting word kireji, imagery etc.) with the poetic standards
of the target culture (e.g., characteristics like title, rhyme, number of lines etc.)
As evidenced by the bulk of translations1 and the time-span during which these have been made, “Kare-eda-ni…” has fascinated Western translators since the beginnings of haiku2 translations. The text corpus used here consists of 32 English translations
composed from 1899 until 2000 (see appendix).3......

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