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Amazon is selling a "newer" edition of the Shiffert translations of Yosa Buson haiku in which the Japanese original has been dropped ... but errors have been introduced into the Latin character roumaji transcriptions which were "retainied" !!

If there is a case for an ebook, this is it.

The W.S. Merwin follows the available editions of Buson haikushuu fairly closely ... but with no Japanese other than more faithful transcriptions of the kanji and kana into roumaji.

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