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Bash+i, 17th-century Japanese poet, abandoning his "broken house on the
River Sumida" to go on a long journey, wrote an eight-part linked verse
and hung it on a post by the doorway. He quotes the first part:

Behind this door
Now buried in deep grass
A different generation will celebrate
The Festival of Dolls.

(Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa, in the Penguin Classics edition of "The
Narrow Road to the Deep North")

Hina-matsuri! called in English "Doll Festival" or "Girls' Day",
3 March!
How did I miss that?
Answer: It's not on my original list.
Because (sez Wiki) it's an annual festival, but not a national holiday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri

But back to the poem.
Searching for the original text, I found this remarkable page which
contrasts several very different translations of it (and the preceding introduction).


kusa no to mo
sumikawaru yo zo
hina no ie

*iepU<ue+peepCCE+Auc+peiE+upURpCCpU#pU-pU<o<|


Even a thatched hut
May change with a new owner
Into a dollrCOs house.

(Translation by Donald Keene)

https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-oku.htm

Original: grass - 's - door - even
live-in/change - people - [emphatic]
doll - 's - house

I think the link to the Festival is justified by the fact that /hina/
refers specifically to very traditional figures, wearing traditional
clothing, which are displayed on that day "to pray for the happiness of girls".

https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/learn/home/dictio/senshoku/hina/
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*iepU<ue+peepCCE+Auc+peiE+upURpCCpU#pU-pU<o<| --- interesting!

3-3 is Girls' Day

5-5 is Boys' Day

7-7 is the day for Lovers

-------- For centuries this was the most
Romantic day (for lovers), until .........




On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 23:34:36 +0000, Ross Clark wrote:

Bash+i, 17th-century Japanese poet, abandoning his "broken house on the
River Sumida" to go on a long journey, wrote an eight-part linked verse
and hung it on a post by the doorway. He quotes the first part:

Behind this door
Now buried in deep grass
A different generation will celebrate
The Festival of Dolls.

(Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa, in the Penguin Classics edition of "The
Narrow Road to the Deep North")

Hina-matsuri! called in English "Doll Festival" or "Girls' Day",
3 March!
How did I miss that?
Answer: It's not on my original list.
Because (sez Wiki) it's an annual festival, but not a national holiday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri

But back to the poem.
Searching for the original text, I found this remarkable page which
contrasts several very different translations of it (and the preceding introduction).

kusa no to mo
sumikawaru yo zo
hina no ie

*iepU<ue+peepCCE+Auc+peiE+upURpCCpU#pU-pU<o<|

Even a thatched hut
May change with a new owner
Into a dollrCOs house.

(Translation by Donald Keene)

https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-oku.htm

Original: grass - 's - door - even
live-in/change - people - [emphatic]
doll - 's - house

I think the link to the Festival is justified by the fact that /hina/
refers specifically to very traditional figures, wearing traditional clothing, which are displayed on that day "to pray for the happiness of girls".

https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/learn/home/dictio/senshoku/hina/

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