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Postcard #6: 初雪や 馬出して行く 門の聲

[Miso Fluent] First snow / leading the horse out / the gate's sound

初雪や

馬出して行く

門の聲


hatsu yuki ya
uma dashite iku
kado no koe


First snow

はつゆき


Leading the horse out

うまだしていく


The sound of the gate

かどのこえ

Generative rendering of a gleeful Basho leading out his horse (imagine: squeaky gate)

In Japanese, the symbol や “ya!” is a rich symbol that means “and so on, in this fashion, with elements from this scene.”

や is very powerful in that it is used to make certain things into “emblems” for the rest of a scene. In this haiku, we have “First snow や” which brings to mind all the elements of a fresh snowfall.

The atmosphere, the surroundings, the personal elements: maybe a clear sky, light dustings of snow, cool clothing, maybe even light snowflakes blowing off rooftops.

(like what you say when you ride a horse and want it to gallop faster! “Yahh!”)

Japanese is full of terms that lend to an immediate poetic quality. Let’s look at some of the lesson excerpts from Japanese Complete about や。

(Lesson Excerpt, Japanese Complete 3.3)

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