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
Ohokimi no 1
idemashi no ma ni
mononofuno
yaso tomo no wo to
ide-yukishi 5
utsukushi tsuma ha
amatobuya
Karu no michi yori
tamatasuki
Unebi wo mitsutsu 10
asamoyoshi
Ki-ji ni iritachi
Matsuchi yama
koyuramu kimi ha
momiji-ba no 15
chiri-tobu mitsutsu
shitashikeku
a wo ba omohazu
kusamakura
tabi wo yoroshi to 20
omohitsutsu
kimi ha aramu to
asoso ni ha
katsu ha shiredomo
shikasu ga ni 25
moda mo ye araneba
aga ’seko ga
yuki no ma ni ma ni
ohamu to ha
chi tabi omohedomo 30
tawayame no
aga mi ni shi areba
michi-mori no
tohamu kotahe wo
ihi-yaramu 35
sube wo shirani to
tachite tsumadzuku!
12 _Ki-ji_ = _Kii no michi_.
17, 18 Read _a wo ba shitashikeku omohazu_.
23 _asoso_ or _azoso_ = _usu-usu_ = _wadzukani_--_asoso ni ha shire …
katsu ha_ … but the text here appears corrupt.
For _mononofuno_, _amatobuya_, _tamatasuki_, _asamoyoshi_, _kusamakura_
see List m. k.
58
Futatose to ifu toshi (Zhimuki = Jinki) kinoto no ushi yayohi Mika no
hara no totsumiya idemaseru toki wotome wo yete Kanamura ga yomeru uta
hitotsu.
Mika no hara 1
tabi no yadori ni
tamahokono
michi no yukiahi ni
amakumono 5
yoso nomi mitsutsu
koto-tohamu
yoshi no nakereba
kokoro nomi
muse-tsutsu aru ni 10
ame tsuchi no
kami koto-yosete
shikitaheno
koromo-de kahete
ono tsuma to 15
tanomeru ko-yohi
aki no yo no
momo yo no nagaku
arikosenu ka mo.
Amakumo no 1
yoso ni mishi yori
wagimoko ni
kokoro mo mi sahe
yori nishi mono wo. 5
12 _kotoyoseru_ strictly means to pretend, but I take it as involving a
committal (of the lover’s fortunes) to the gods.
19 _ari koso ne_ (_kibô no kotoba_), Oh, that it might or may be so!
For _tamahokono_, _amakumono_, _shikitaheno_ see List m. k.
59
Sakanohe no Iratsume ga urami no uta hitotsu.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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