平戸廉吉詩選

All loanwords—romanized words and kana transliterations—are italicized and kept in their original French, Italian, English, or German. I have sometimes used Sanskrit for Buddhist terminology used by the author. Capitalized letters emphasize the experimentation with enlarged texts (with romanization of enlarged texts, Hirato often used capped letters). When Hirato Renkichi plays with parataxis in his line breaks to open up their polysemic capacities, the grammatical constructions are sometimes "flipped" in the English translation in order to maintain proximity to the original's noun-verb relations and the pressures of its line breaks. To the best of my ability, I have approximated sound repetitions and patterns in order to retain their "performability," at times marginally sacrificing a strict semantic interpretation of the author's work. I have also kept, to a large extent, the original punctuation marks from the Japanese; however, in select places, I have added or deleted punctuation marks implied by Japanese particles. Although Japanese grammatical constructions tend to be slightly more "elastic" than that of English, I have kept disjunctions whenever I felt the original Japanese language constructions were unconventional. Lastly, I have capitalized the beginning of lines to differentiate them from prose blocks.