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
21 = _nagoyaka_ (_naru mono no_) _shita ni_, under something soft.
22 = _fusuma_ made of _taku_ (Broussonetia) cloth.
23 _sayagu_, rustle, like leaves in the wind.
24 foam-snow, soft snow that falls in spring.
25 _wakayaru_, perhaps = young.
27 _tadamuki_ = _ude_, arm.
29 _managari_, interlacingly.
33 _i_, sleep.
Nihongi uta hitotsu (under year A.D. 513 ed. Ihida)
Yashima kuni 1
tsuma maki-kanete
haruhino
Kasuga no kuni ni
kuhashi me wo 5
ari to kikite
yoroshi me wo
ari to kikite
makisaku
hi no itato wo 10
oshi-hiraki
ware irimashi
ato tori
tsuma tori shite
makura tori 15
tsuma tori shite
imo ga te wo
ware ni makishi me
waga te wo ba
imo ni makishi me 20
masaki tsura
tataki asahari
shishikushiro
umahi ne shi to ni
nihatsutori 25
kake ha naku nari
nutsutori
kigishi ha toyomu
hashikeku mo
imada ihazute 30
aki ni keri wagimo!
13 on the heels of.
22 _asahari_ = _azanahari_, enlace or be enlaced with. _tataki_ = pat,
beat softly and repeatedly.
29 _hashikeku_ seems to be connected with _hashi_, end.
KOKINSHIU
1
Iso no kami
furuki miyako no
hototogisu
kowe bakari koso
mukashi narikeri.
2
Hana no chiru
koto ya wabishiki
harugasumi
Tatsuta no yama no
uguhisu no kowe.
3
Yuki no uchi ni
haru ha ki nikeri
uguhisu no
kohoreru namida
ima ya tokuramu.
4
Yo no naka ni
tayete sakura no
nakariseba
haru no kokoro ha
nodokekaramashi.
5
Utsusemino
yo ni mo nitaru ka
hanazakura
saku to mishi ma ni
katsu chiri nikeri.
6
Momijiba wo
kaze ni makasete
miru yori mo
hakanaki mono ha
inochi narikeri.
7
Hana chirasu
kaze no yadori ha
tare ka shiru
ware ni oshiheyo
yukite uramimu.
8
Harusame no
furu ha namida ka
sakurabana
chiru wo woshimanu
hito shi nakereba.
9
Haru kasumi
tatsu wo misutete
yuku kari ha
hana naki sato ni
sumi ya narayeru.
HIYAKUNIN ITSUSHIYU
10
Kasasagi no
wataseru hashi ni
oku shimo no
shiroki wo mireba
yo so fuke nikeru.
11
Kimi ga tame
haru no no ni idete
wakana tsumu
waga koromo-de ni
yuki ha furitsutsu.
12
Hana sasofu
arashi no niha no
yuki narade
furi-yuku mono ha
wagami narikeri.
13
Wabinureba
ima hata onazhi
Naniha naru
mi wo tsukushite mo
awamu to so omofu.
14
Haru no yo no
yume bakari naru
tamakura ni
kahi naku tatamu
na koso woshikere.
15
Aki kaze ni
tanabiku kumo no
tahema yori
more-idzuru tsuki no
kage no sayakesa.
16
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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