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HAIKU PAMPHLET SERIES


Translations of Basho, Buson, Issa, Santoka, Shiki, and Soha, accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration (romaji).

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“I’ll say my dream for these worthy artifacts is that they would be given as surprise parting gifts to friends who are about to head out to the airport. Reading these poems on a subway train on the way to the airport—that would surely produce the receptive/grateful headspace these things flourish in.”

“But how are the translations? Oh, I would use the word ‘expert.’ This Anthony Opal clearly either knows a lot of Japanese, or knows enough to check carefully with people who do.”

“If you compare his translations with those published by, say, Columbia University Press, you find that his versions have no idiosyncrasies. Your overwhelming sense will be that he is striving to say in elegant English what it says in the elegant Japanese.”

-From Anthony Madrid’s review, “On Anthony Opal’s Chapbook Series of Translations from the Japanese,” published by Fence Digital




   

Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-5-0
Published: September 18, 2020
$10.00︎︎︎




    

Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 979-8-9885108-2-6
Published: October 2, 2023
$10.00︎︎︎




    

Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 979-8-9885108-5-7
Published: July 21, 2024
$10.00︎︎︎




   

Author: Yosa Buson
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-1-0
Published: December 7, 2021
$10.00︎︎︎




   

Author: Kobayashi Issa
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-6-7
Published: September 18, 2020
$10.00︎︎︎




    

Author: Kobayashi Issa
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-6-7
Published: May 16, 2025
$10.00︎︎︎




   

Author: Masaoka Shiki
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-9-6
Published: May 12, 2023
$10.00︎︎︎




   

Author: Taneda Santoka
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-3-4
Published: April 28, 2022
$10.00︎︎︎




   

Author: Taneda Santoka
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 979-8-9885108-8-8
Published: October 29, 2024
$10.00︎︎︎




   

Author: Hatano Soha
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-0-5
Published: August 26, 2020
$10.00︎︎︎


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