#Hagiwara Sakutarō

[ochoislas]

LUNA Y MEDUSAS

Me baño a la luz de la luna. Mis manos se alargan anhelosas, se sueltan. Tentando lejos, agarran amasijos de medusas.

Enroscado en los sargazos, bañado en aguas de luna ¿me volví de cristal? Fluye una gélida trasparencia. Mi alma helada se hunde en la sima: rezo como quien se ahoga.

Agavilladas aquí y allá trémulas medusas pálidas surten en el claro de luna.

Hagiwara Sakutarō

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月光と海月

月光の中を泳ぎいで むらがるくらげを捉へんとす 手はからだをはなれてのびゆき しきりに遠きにさしのべらる もぐさにまつはり 月光の水にひたりて わが身は玻璃のたぐひとなりはてしか つめたくして透きとほるもの流れてやまざるに たましひは凍えんとし ふかみにしづみ 溺るるごとくなりて祈りあぐ。

かしこにここにむらがり さ青にふるへつつ くらげは月光のなかを泳ぎいづ。

[playitagin]

1942 - Sakutarō Hagiwara

Sakutarō Hagiwara (萩原 朔太郎, Hagiwara Sakutarō, 1 November 1886 – 11 May 1942) was a Japanese writer of free verse, active in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.

[hungeringforit]

Wanting to be Walking Among Crowds, Sakutarō Hagiwara

I always want the city, want to be inside the lively crowds of the city. Crowds are things like huge waves with emotions. They are groups of vigorous wills and desires pouring into every place. Oh in the plaintive twilight of spring, to want the shade between building and building in the complicated city, to go along tossed about inside the huge crowds, how joyful it is. Look, this sight of crowds that go flowing by. One wave overlapping upon another wave, the waves making innumerable shadows, and the shadows move on swaying. The distress and sorrows of each one of the people all disappear among the shadows, leaving no trace. Oh this joyful shadow of the great love and innocence. The sensation of being carried along beyond the joyful waves becomes almost like weeping. In the desolate twilight of a day of spring, these groups of lovers swimming under the eaves from building to building, where and in what way do they go flowing along I wonder? My sorrowful gloominess is covered up in the one big shadow on the earth, flowing waves of the drifting innocence. Oh I want to go on being tossed by these waves of crowds no matter where, no matter where. Waves far ahead on the horizon look indistinct. Toward one, only one direction, let me flow along.

[velvetbyrne]

Final book haul of the year, I am broke.

List (left to right):

Woodpecker Detective's Office by Ii Kei

Politicians of the Bakumatsu Era by Fukuchi Ōchi

Criticism of Theatre by Miki Takeji (Mori Ōgai's little brother)

Book of the Dead by Orikuchi Shinobu

Vita Sexualis by Mori Ōgai

Tsuboi Sakae's book of Fairy Tales by Tsuboi Sakae

Akai Tori Collection by Various Authors

A Day with Cats by Osaragi Jirō

Lemon by Kajii Motojirō

The Bird's Nest by Suzuki Miekichi

Higuchi Ichiyō Novel Collection by Higuchi Ichiyō

The Black Lizard by Hirotsu Ryūrō

Otōto by Kōda Aya

A Room of Sweet Honey by Mori Mari

The Golden Demon by Ozaki Kōyō

Saitō Mokichi's Poetry Collection by Saitō Mokichi

Takuboku's Poetry Collection by Ishikawa Takuboku

Wakayama Bokusui's Poetry Collection by Wakayama Bokusui

Kusano Shinpei's Poetry Collection by Kusano Shinpei

Miya Shūji's Poetry Collection by Miya Shūji

Hagiwara Sakutarō's Poetry Collection by Hagiwara Sakutarō

Tachihara Michizō's Poetry Collection by Tachihara Michizō

[sips-tea-cutely]

#bungo to alchemist masterlist

nsfw: [★]

Osamu Dazai

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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Haruo Sato

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Shūsei Tokuda

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Chūya Nakahara

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Tōson Shimazaki

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Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda

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Ango Sakaguchi

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Sakutarō ‘Saku’ Hagiwara

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Saisei ‘Sai’ Muroo

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Saneatsu Mushanokōji

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Naoya Shiga

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Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

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Kazuo Dan

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Kan Kikuchi

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Masao Kume

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Tatsuo Hori

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[mowukamoon]

This is a translation of a poem by Hagiwara Sakutarō that I found for a recent History project. Just thought I’d share it.

[garadinervi]

«’The Poetry of Hagiwara Sakutarō’, Translated by Graeme Wilson, reprint from Japan Quarterly (Vol. XIII No. 4, 1966). Black 'Oasis' goatskin, inlaid in orange goatskin, tooled in gold. 259 x 185mm; bound 1968. Private collection.», in Tracey Rowledge, From One Maker to Another: an Appreciation of Ivor Robinson's work, «The New Bookbinder» – Journal of Designer Bookbinders, Vol. 35, 'Of Space and Place: Ornament in Action', (pp. 65-72), 2015, p. 67 (pdf here)

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Hagiwara Sakutarō, ‘Cock’, from The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

[vulgarirex]

-The town of cats / Sakutarō Hagiwara

[feral-ballad]

Sakutarō Hagiwara, from Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems; "Death of a frog"

[ochoislas]

VISTA SÓRDIDA

Vine al campo sórdido y vi almiares secando, pistas ahogadas de matojos, nubes de moscas en la carretera; el hedor agobiante del polvo. Agotado, me senté al borde de un arrozal, hincando la punta del flaco paraguas en una rana muerta del ribazo. La verdad, mis sentimientos de hoy se tiznan de dolor y ajándose graves se vuelven tormento en el fango. ¿Cómo se colma semejante vacío?

¡Deja de vagar por sendas agrestes! Tu vida salió volando.

Hagiwara Sakutarō

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まづしき展望

まづしき田舍に行きしが かわける馬秣を積みたり 雜草の道に生えて 道に蠅のむらがり くるしき埃のにほひを感ず。 ひねもす疲れて畔に居しに 君はきやしやなる洋傘の先もて 死にたる蛙を畔に指せり。 げにけふの思ひは惱みに暗く そはおもたく沼地に渇きて苦痛なり いづこに空虚のみつべきありや 風なき野道に遊戲をすてよ われらの生活は失踪せり。

[megairea]

Sakutarō Hagiwara, from Cock; The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (ed. by Anthony Thwaite)

[viperslang]

“Poetry is what grasps the nerves of feelings. It is a live, working psychology.”

Sakutarō Hagiwara, c. 1926

[aemperatrix]

Hagiwara Sakutarō, A Dish of Skylarks (tr. Satoru Sato and Constance Urdang)

[rootsmachine]

i’m going back to minnesota where sadness makes sense, danez smith / rooster, sakutarō hagiwara / something, mary oliver

[charleyfoster]

Sakutarō Hagiwara