Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries
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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries
Japanese literature -- To 1868
14 _nagusamu_.
16 _maki-ohoshi_ = sow or plant, let grow.
17 _no no no_, the second _no_ = _nu_, moor.
18 _sa-yuri_, the _sa_ of _sa tsuki_--vigorously growing (_sa nahe_),
lily of the fifth month.
24 Here _yuri_ = _yori_ = _nochi_.
For _aratamano_, _shikitaheno_, _amazakaru_ see List m. k.
233
Ohokimi no 1
maki no manimani
tori-mochite
tsukafuru kuni no
toshi no uchi no 5
koto katane mochi
tamahokono
michi ni ide-tachi
ihane fumi
yama koye nu yuki 10
miyako he
mawishi waga se wo
aratamano
toshi yuki-kaheri
tsuki kasane 15
minu hi sa-manemi
kofuru sora
yasuku shi araneba
hototogisu
ki naku sa-dzuki no 20
ayame-gusa
yomogi kadzura ki
saka mi-dzuki
asobi naguredo
Imidzu kaha 25
yuki ke afurite
yuku midzu no
iya mashi ni nomi
tadzu ga naku
Nagoye no suge no 30
nemokoro ni
omohi musuhore
nageki tsutsu
aga matsu kimi ga
koto wohari 35
kaheri makarite
natsu no nu no
sa yuri no hana no
hana wemi ni
nifubu ni wemite 40
ahashitaru
kefu wo hazhimete
kagaminasu
kaku shi tsune mimu
omokaharisezu. 45
6 _katane_, _katanu_ is to settle, arrange, conclude, &c.
10 The syntax here is obscure.
13, 14, 15 lit. fresh years came and went--the months summed up.…
19 _hototogisu ki naku_ is epithetical of _sa-tsuki_.
22 Error for _yanagi_?
25-30 are introductory to _nemokoro_.
41 = _ahi-tamahi_.
44 _kaku shi tsune_ = just as now so always.
45 _omokahari sezu_, without change of face, i.e. keeping health and
youth.
For _tamahokono_, _aratamano_, _kagaminasu_ see List m. k.
234
Amage no kumo wo mite yomeru uta.
Sumerogi no 1
shikimasu kuni no
ame no shita
yo mo no michi ni ha
uma no tsume 5
i-tsukusu kihami
funa no he no
i-hatsuru made ni
inishihe yo
ima no wotsutsu ni 10
yorodzu tsuki
matsuru tsukasa to
tsukuritaru
sono nari-hahi wo
ame furazu 15
hi no kasanareba
uwe shita mo
makishi hatake mo
asa goto ni
shibomi kare-yuku 20
so wo mireba
kokoro wo itami
midori-ko no
chi kofu ga gotoku
amatsumidzu 25
afugite so matsu
ashihikino
yama no tawori ni
kono miyuru
ama no shira kumo 30
watatsumi no
okitsu miya he ni
tachi-watari
tonogumori ahite
ame mo tamahane. 35
4 _yo mo_, four faces or quarters, everywhere.
10 _wotsutsu_ = _utsutsu_.
11 _tsuki_ = tribute, tax.
28 _tawori_, summit.
For _amatsumidzu_ (used here in double sense), _ashihikino_ see List m.
k.
235
Tanabata no uta.
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