Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Let's talk about poetry translation and karuta.

Sources:
Learn more about Karuta: tofugu.com/japan/karuta-japanese-cards

All the poems in Japanese, romaji, and English (this is the source I used when writing the video script, but as of February, their site seems to be down):
https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/hyakuframes.html

Another site with MacCauley’s translations:
extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/resour/mirrors/rbearold/poems/100poems.html

A site with all the 100 poems in Japanese:
samac.jp/search/poems_list.php

All the poems, CR subs:
reddit.com/r/chihayafuru/comments/b5kzcj/anime_chihayafuru_poem_translations_crunchyroll

onethousandsummers.blogspot.com/2012/08/hyakunin-isshu-poem-42-kiyohara-no.html

Some images: Tsunagujapan.com, pngtree

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