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
Tatekometaru tokoro no to sunahachi tada aki ni akinu kaushidomo mo
hito ha nakushite akinu wouna idakite witaru Kaguyahime to ni idenu
ye-todomu-mazhikereba tada sashi-afugite naki-wori.
Taketori kokoro madohite naki-fuseru tokoro ni yorite Kaguyahime
‘koko ni mo kokoro ni mo arade kaku makaru ni noboramu wo dani
mi-okuri-tamahe’
to ihedomo,
‘Nani shi ni kanashiki ni mi-okuri-tatematsuramu ware wo ba ika ni seyo
tote sutete ha nobori-tamafu zo gushite wite ohasene’
to nakite fusereba, ‘on kokoro madohinu’[209] fumi wo kaki-okite
‘makaramu kohishikaramu wori-wori tori-idete mi-tamahe’ tote,
uchi-nakite kaku koto ha--
‘Kono kuni ni umarenuru to naraba nagekase-tatematsuranu hodo made
haberubeki wo haberade[210] sugi wakarenuru koto kahesugahesu ho-i-naku
koto oboye-habere nugi-oku kinu katami to mi-tamahe tsuki no idetaramu
yo ha mi-okose-tamahe mi-sute-tatematsurite makaru sora yori ochinubeki
kokochi su--’ to kaki-oku.
Amabito no naka ni motasetaru hako ari. Ama no ha-goromo ireri. Mata
aru ha fushi no kusuri ireri. Hitoro no amabito ifu--
‘Tsubo naru mi kusuri tatematsure kitanaki tokoro no mono
kikoshimeshitareba on kokochi ashikaramu mono zo’--tote,
mote-yoritareba isasaka nametamahite sukoshi katami tote nugi-oku kinu
ni tsutsumamu to sureba aru amabito ‘tsutsumasezu’ on zo wo tori-idete
kisen to su. Sono toki ni Kaguyahime ‘shibashi mate’ to ihite[211]
‘kinu kitsuru[212] hito ha kokoro koto[213] ni naru nari’ to ifu[214]
‘mono no hito-goto koto ihi-okubeki koto ari’ to ihite, fumi kaku.
Amabito ‘ososhi to kokoro-moto nagari-tamafu’ Kaguyahime ‘mono shiranu
koto na shi-tamahi so’ tote, imizhiku shidzuka ni ohoyake ni on fumi
tatematsuritamafu awatenu sama nari.
‘Kaku amata no hito wo tamahite, todome-sase-tamahedo yurusanu.
Mukahe maude kite tori-wite makarinureba kuchiwoshiku kanashiki
koto miyadzukahe tsukaumatsurazu narinuru mo kaku wadzurahashiki
mi nite habereba kokoroyezu oboshimeshi tsuramedomo kokoro tsuyoku
uketamaharazu nari nishi koto namege-naru mono ni oboshimeshi
todomerarenuru namu kokoro ni tomari-haberinuru’ tote,
Ima ha tote
Ama no hagoromo
kiru wori zo,
kimi wo ahare to
omohi-idenuru!
tote, tsubo no kusuri sohete tou no chiushiyau wo yobi-yosete
tatematsurasu.
Chiushiyau ni amabito torite tsutafu. Chiushiyau toritsureba futo ama
no hagoromo uchi-kise-tatematsuritsureba Okina wo itohoshi kanashi to
oboshi-tsuru koto mo usenu kono kinu kitsuru hito ha mono-omohi mo
nakunari nikereba kuruma ni norite hiyaku nin bakari amabito gushite
noborinu.
Sono nochi Okina wouna chi no namida wo nagashite madohedo kahi nashi.
Ano kaki-okishi fumi wo yomite kikasekeredo nani sen ni ka inochi mo
oshikaramu taga tame ni ka nanigoto mo yau mo nashi tote kusuri mo
kuhazu yagate oki mo agarazu yami fuseri.
Chiushiyau hitobito wo hiki-gushite kaheri-mawirite Kaguyahime wo
ye-tatakahi-tomezu narinuru koto wo komagoma to sousu.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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