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
[180] Sometimes omitted.
[181] Some texts omit _te mo_.
[182] Or _chikaku nari_.
[183] Some texts omit _chikaku … ni_.
[184] Or _on tomo_.
[185] This seems a corrupt passage.
[186] Or _idzuru_.
[187] i.e. _chikaku aru_.
[188] 制.
[189] _to mo kaku mo_.
[190] 人間, where men are not, i.e. solitary place, or simply 一間.
[191] 切.
[192] Or _tsune_.
[193] Or _tamahedomo_.
[194] Or _tatematsure_.
[195] _najô_ = _naze_.
[196] Or _Kaguyahime_, included in the speech, and _tsuki wo_ omitted.
[197] Or _toki ni_.
[198] Or add _to_.
[199] _koto kana!_ seems to have dropped out.
[200] 目.
[201] Or _ni ha_ omitted.
[202] Or _tsuiji_.
[203] 外.
[204] _sore ga_.
[205] Some texts omit _domo_.
[206] Or _hi-goro_.
[207] In some texts _zuru_ (_zo aru_?) _mo_ omitted.
[208] 内外.
[209] Words of Kaguya.
[210] This seems the best of several obscure readings.
[211] Or _ifu_.
[212] Or _kisetsuru_.
[213] 異.
[214] Or _chiyufu_.
KOKIN WAKASHIU ZHIYO[215]
TEXT TRANSLITERATED
Yamato uta ha hito no kokoro wo tane to shite yorodzu no koto no ha to
so narerikeru.
Yo no naka ni aru hito kotowaza shigeki mono nareba kokoro ni omofu
koto miru mono kiku mono ni tsukite ihi-idaseru nari. Hana ni naku
uguhisu midzu ni sumu kahadzu no kowe wo kikeba iki to shi ikeru mono
idzure ka uta wo yomimazarikeru.
Chikara wo mo irezu shite ame tsuchi wo ugokashi me ni miyenu oni
kami wo mo ahare to omohase wotoko ouna no naka wo mo yaharage takeki
mononofu no kokoro wo mo nagusamu kono uta ame tsuchi no hirake
hazhimarikeru toki yori ide ki ni keri shika aredomo yo ni tsutaharu
koto ha hisakata no[216] ame ni shite ha Shitateruhime ni hazhimari
araganeno[217] tsuchi ni shite ha Susa no wo no mikoto yori zo
okarikeru.
[Chihayaburu[218] kami yo ni ha uta no mozhi mo sadamarazu sunaho ni
shite koto no kokoro waki-katakarikerashi hito no yo to narite Susanowo
no mikoto yori zo miso mozhi amari hito mozhi ha yomikeru]
Kakute zo hana wo mede tori wo urayami[219] kasumi wo aharebi tsuyu wo
kanashibu kokoro kotoba ohoku samazama ni nari ni keru.
Tohoki tokoro mo ide-tatsu ashi moto yori hazhimarite toshi tsuki wo
watari takaki yama mo fumoto no chirihiji yori narite ama kumo tanabiku
made ohi-noboreru ga gotoku ni kono uta mo kaku no gotoku narubeshi.
Naniha tsu no uta ha mikado no on hazhime nari. Asaka yama no koto no
ha ha uneme no tahamure yori yomite kono futa uta ha uta no chichi haha
no yô (yau) nite zo te-narafu hito no hazhime ni mo shikeru.
Somosomo uta no sama mutsu nari. Kara no uta ni mo kaku zo arubeki.
Sono mu kusa no hitotsu ni ha sohe uta futatsu ni ha kazoye uta mitsu
ni ha nazurahe uta yotsu ni ha tatohe uta itsutsu ni ha tadagoto uta
mutsu ni ha ihahi uta nari.
Ima no yo no naka iro ni tsuki hito no kokoro hana ni nari ni keru
yori ada naru uta hakanaki koto nomi ide-kureba iro konomi no ihe
ni umore-gi no hito shirenu koto to narite mame naru tokoro ni ha
hana-susuki ho ni idasubeki koto ni mo arazu nari ni keri[220].
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