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
Oshiteru 1
Naniha no suge no
nemokoro ni
kimi ga kikoshite
toshi fukaku 5
nagaku shi iheba
masokagami
togishi kokoro wo
yurushiteshi
sono hi no kihami 10
nami no muta
nabiku tamamo no
ka ni kaku ni
kokoro ha motazu
ohobuneno 15
tanomeru toki ni
chihayaburu
kami ya sakekemu
utsusemino
hito ka safuramu 20
kayohashishi
kimi mo kimasazu
tamadzusano
tsukahi mo miyezu
narinureba 25
ita mo sube nami
nubatamano
yoru ha sugara ni
akarabiku
hi mo kururu made 30
nagekedomo
shirushi wo nami
omohedomo
ta-dzuki wo shirani
tawayame to 35
ihaku mo shiruku
tawarahano
ne nomi nakitsutsu
tamotohori
kimi ga tsukahi wo 40
machi ya kanetemu.
1, 2 Introductory to _nemokoro_.
4 _kikoshite_ = _notamahite_.
12 This line serves as m. k. to the next.
13 swerving neither this nor that way.
29 _akarabiku_, the _ra_ is of unknown value, perhaps = _akarashiki wo
hiku_, lead in earliest dawn.
For _oshiteru_, _masokagami_, _ohobuneno_, _chihayaburu_, _utsusemino_,
_tamadzusano_, _nubatamano_, _akarabiku_, _tawarahano_ see List m. k.
MAKI IV, SHIMO
60
Sakanohe no Iratsume ga Tomi no todokoro yori ihe ni todomareru musume
no Oho Iratsume ni okureru uta hitotsu mata mizhika uta.
Toko-yo ni to 1
aga yukanaku ni
wo-kanato ni
mono kanashirani
omoherishi 5
aga ko no tozhi wo
nubatamano
yoru hiru to ihazu
omofu nishi
aga mi ha yasenu 10
nageku nishi
sode sahe nurenu
kaku bakari
motona shi kohiba
furu sato ni 15
kono tsuki-goro mo
ari katemashi wo.
Asakamino 1
omohi midarete
kaku bakari
nane ga kofure so
ime ni miyekeru. 5
1 though ’tis not as though I went to the Eternal Land, yet on parting
with thee at the door overcome with grief was I, &c.
14 as ’tis of no avail to love thee.
17 _ari katemashi wo_ = _ari-katai koto kana!_
4 _nane_ = _nanzhi ane_, a term of endearment and respect.
5 Read _kofureba so nane ga_ &c.
For _nubatamano_, _asakamino_ see List m. k.
MAKI V, KAMI
61
Kanashimi no Yamato-uta hitotsu.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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