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
‘Oya no notamafu koto wo hitaburu ni inami mausamu koto no itohoshisa
ni ye-gataki mono wo yukashi to ha maushitsuru[67] wo kaku asamashiku
mote kuru koto wo namu netaku omohi haberu’,
to ihedo, naho[68] Okina ha neya no uchi shitsurahi nado su.
Okina miko ni mausu yau--
‘Ikanaru tokoro ni ka kono ki ha safurahikemu. Ayashiku uruhashiku
medetaki mono ni mo’
to mausu.
Miko kotahete notamahaku--
‘Saototoshi[69] no kisaragi no towo ka goro ni Naniha yori fune ni
norite umi naka ni idete yukamu kata mo shirazu oboheshikado omofu koto
narade ha[70] yo no naka ni ikite nani ka semu to omohishikaba tada
munashiki kaze ni makasete ariku. Inochi shinaba ikaga ha semu ikite
aramu kagiri ha[71] kaku arikite Hourai to ifuramu yama ni afu ya to
nami[72] ni tadayohi kogi arikite waga kuni no uchi wo hanarete ariki
maharishi[73] ni aru toki ha nami aretsutsu umi no soko ni mo irinubeku
arutoki ni[74] ha[75] kaze ni tsukete shiranu kuni ni fuki yoserarete
oni no yau naru mono idekite korosamu to shiki[76] aru toki ni ha koshi
kata yuku suwe mo shirazu[77] umi ni magiremu to shiki aru toki ni ha
kate tsukite kusa no ne wo kuhi mono to shiki aru toki ni ha ihamu kata
naku mukutsuge[78] naru mono kite kuhi kakaramu to shiki aru toki ni ha
umi no kai wo torite inochi wo tsugu. Tabi no sora ni tasukubeki[79]
hito mo naki tokoro ni iro-iro no yamahi wo shite yuku he[80] sora[81]
mo obohezu fune no yuku ni makasete umi ni tadayohite i-ho ka to ifu
tatsu no toki bakari ni umi no naka ni wadzuka[82] ni yama miyu fune no
uchi wo[83] namu semete miru umi no uhe ni tadayoheru yama ito ohoki
nite ari. Sono yama no sama takaku uruwashi. Kore ya waga motomuru
yama naramu to omohedo[84] sasuga ni osoroshiku oboyete yama no meguri
wo sashimegurashite futsuka mika bakari mi-ariku ni amabito no yosohi
shitaru wouna yama no naka yori idekite shirokane no kanamari wo
mochite midzu wo kumi ariku. Kore wo mite fune yori orite kono yama no
na wo nan to ka mausu to tofu ni wouna kotahete ihaku[85]--
‘Kore ha Hourai no yama nari to kotafu. Kore wo kiku ni ureshiku koto
kagiri nashi. Kono wouna ni kaku notamafu ha “taso” to tofu “Waga na ha
Houkamururi” to ihite futo yama no naka ni irinu.
‘Sono yama wo miru ni sara ni noborubeki yau nashi. Sono yama no
sobatsura[86] wo megureba yo no naka ni naki hana no kidomo tateri
kogane shirogane ruri iro no midzu nagare idetari. Sore ni ha iroiro
no tama no hashi wataseri. Sono atari ni teri-kagayaku kidomo tateri
sono naka ni kono[87] torite mochite maude[88] kitarishi ha ito
warokarishikadomo notamahishi ni tagahamashikaba tote kono hana wo
worite maude kitaru nari. Kore ha kagiri naku omoshiroshi[89] yo
ni tatofubeki ni arazarishikado kono yeda wo woriteshikaba sara
ni kokoromoto nakute fune ni norite ohi-kaze fukite shi hiyaku yo
nichi[90] ni namu maude ki nishi.’
‘Daikuwan no chikara ni ya Naniha yori kinofu namu Miyako ni maude
kitsuru sara ni shiho ni nuretaru kinu wo dani nugi-kahenade--namu
kochi[91] maude kitsuru’
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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