Transcriber’s Note: Some of the kanji characters in this book appear to have no modern equivalent and a close but not identical character--a “best guess”--has been substituted. These are shown e.g. {蹄}. Illustrations of the characters are included in the HTML version. The author’s list of emendations has not been addressed: it seems more useful to the reader left as it is. PRIMITIVE & MEDIAEVAL JAPANESE TEXTS TRANSLITERATED INTO ROMAN WITH INTRODUCTIONS NOTES AND GLOSSARIES BY FREDERICK VICTOR DICKINS, C.B. SOMETIME REGISTRAR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WITH A COMPANION VOLUME OF TRANSLATIONS 反以將之說詳而學博 MENCIUS 也約說 OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1906 HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH NEW YORK AND TORONTO TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ERNEST SATOW, G.C.M.G. MINISTER TO CHINA SOMETIME MINISTER TO JAPAN HI NI MUKAHI HI NO DE NO HIKARI HI NO IRI NO HINA NI I-WATASHITE HIZHIRI SHIRUSERI KASANE-GOHI [五ひ] KA MO PREFACE The following texts are exact transliterations of the _Kana yomi_ of the Manyôshiu, and of the _yomi_ of the mixed Japanese script of the Taketori Monogatari, the Preface to the Kokinwakashiu, and Takasago, according to the system devised by Sir Ernest Satow and adopted by Professor Chamberlain. The translations of the texts are given in a companion volume, where full explanatory introductions and notes will be found. The following abbreviations are employed: (K.) Professor Chamberlain’s translation of the Kojiki; (N.) Dr. Aston’s translation of the Nihongi; (Fl.) Professor Florenz’s part translation of the Nihongi; (Br.) Captain Brinkley’s Japanese-English Dictionary; (I.) Kotoba no Izumi; (T.A.S.J.) Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. The texts contained in the present volume are:-- 1. The _nagauta_ or _chôka_ (long lays) of the Manyôshiu, the earliest of the Japanese Anthologies, compiled about 760 A.D., with their _kaheshi uta_ or _hanka_ (envoys). The text used is that of Kamochi Masazumi in his magnificent edition, Manyôshiu Kogi, the Ancient Meaning of the Manyôshiu, written during the first half of the nineteenth century but published in 1879.