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. sennin　仙人と伝説 Legends about Immortals .
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Sennin and poetry 仙人




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『古狂歌　ご笑納ください』
Robin D Gill


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All are Edo kyouka but the last, a Kamigata kyouka.

仙人も天狗も雲と見たがへて梢を踏むなみ芳野の花　
飯盛 Tenmei
Long-lived sages and long-nosed goblins over Yoshino take care
not to step on the tree-tops, as blossoms not clouds are there!



真っ白なはぎにみとれし仙人の涎なるらん花のべの露　
橘打枝 E1790
By white clover/calves besot, the cloud-borne saint became a fool that is to say,
the dew upon that flow’ry field is his drool!



鶴に乗り又風に乗るあやふさハ命知らずと云わむ仙人
石面亭岩礼E1812
Riding cranes or flying on nothing but the wind sounds risky –
mountain saints who’d live forever seem like dare-devils to me.



年ふとも歯は損ねじな仙人は露や霧を喰い物にして　
茂喬K1815
Mountain mystics may be old, but all their teeth are there --
I guess that comes from eating just mist, haze, fog and air.


I suppose “ascetics” and “wizards” might be added to the translations as “sages” “saints” amd “mystics” for「仙人」。

Thanks to Robin D. Gill !


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群仙図屏風　folding screen with images of the Sennin
曾我蕭白 Soga Shohaku （1730 - 1781）

屏風絵の仙人と座す山の寺
byoobu-e no sennin to zasu yama no tera

I sit with the Immortals
on a folding screen
in a mountain temple

松永兼子 Matsunaga Kaneko

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仙人の鬚洗ひ居る清水哉
sennin no hige arai-iru shimizu kana

this clear water
where Sennin wash
their beard . . .

寺田寅彦 Terada Torahiko (1878 - 1935)


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伊丹三樹彦 Itami Mikihito (1920 - )
花仙人 Hana Sennin - Poetry Collection 1991　
現代俳句18人集 - Modern Haiku by 18 Poets

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. Legends about Kobo Daishi Kukai - 弘法大師　空海 - 伝説 .

. Japanese legends and tales 伝説　民話　昔話 - Introduction .

- Yookai 妖怪 Yokai Monsters of Japan -
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