Among the translations of Japanese poems into French is Jacques Roubaud's collection Mono no aware. Le Sentiment des choses (1970), offers us a singular case: it is not a translation in the narrow sense of the term, but rather, according to Roubaud, "poems borrowed from Japanese. The article aims to highlight the characteristic features of this translation as a borrowing of classical Japanese poems by the contemporary French poet. In particular, it discusses the digital composition of the collection, the typographical arrangements and games, and the aesthetics of the borrowing, which brings Roubaud's process closer to that of the "borrowed landscape" in Japanese gardens.