Haiku 11: Along the shore...

Here is today's haiku:

磯ぎはにざぶりざぶりと波打ちて

And in romaji:

isogiwa-ni zaburi-zaburi to nami uchite

And English: "English"

This is a haiku by Issa, and it features onomatopoeia, which is one of my favorite things in Japanese (or any language): ざぶりざぶり"zaburi-zaburi" (with the particle と "to" afterwards, which apparently makes the onomatopoeia into an adverb). I went ahead and said splash-crash instead of splash-splash because waves are just so big; they are doing more than just splashing, right?

art by Katsushika Hokusai

My vocabulary for today:

波
なみ
"wave"