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
Waga ohokimi 1
kami no mikoto no
takashirasu
Futagi no miya ha
momo ki moru 5
yama ha ko-dakashi
ochi-tagitsu
se no ’to mo kiyoshi
uguhisu no
ki naku haru he ha 10
ihaho ni ha
yama shita-hikari
nishiki nasu
hana saki wowori
sawoshika no 15
tsuma yobu aki ha
ama-girafu
shigure wo itami
sanidzurafu
momichi chiritsutsu 20
yachi tose ni
are tsukashitsutsu
ame no shita
shiroshimesamu to
momo yo ni mo 25
kaharubekaranu
ohomiya tokoro.
Wotomera ga 1
umi wo kaku chifu
Kase no yama
toki shi yukereba
miyako to narinu. 5
5 The meaning of _moru_ is disputed. The Kogi follows Motowori, taking
_moru_ as equivalent to _shigeru_.
22 = _chôtei ni tsukahematsuru wo_. _are_ = _arahare_.
3 _kase_, homophon of _Kase_, means skein or spool.
For _sanidzurafu_, see List m. k.
95
Haru no koro Mika no hara no miyako no aretaru wo kanashimi yomeru uta
hitotsu.
Mika no hara 1
Kuni no miyako ha
yama takami
kaha no se kiyomi
ari yoshi to 5
hito ha ihedomo
sumi yoshi to
are ha omohedo
furi nishi
sato nishi areba 10
kuni miredo
hito mo kayohazu
sato mireba
ihe no aretari
hashikeyashi 15
kaku arikeru ka
mi moro tsuku
Kase yama no ma ni
saku hana ni
iro medzurashiku 20
momotorino
kowe natsukashiki
ari-gahoshi
sumi yoki sato no
aruraku woshi mo! 25
2 _Kuni_, is City-Royal; in 11 _kuni_ is ‘land’ or ‘country.’
15 must be read, though indirectly, with 18, 16 being parenthetical.
17 Motowori prefers _umi wo kaku_ (see 94).
_tsuku_ = _tsukuru_.
25 _aruraku_ = _aruru_, lie desolate, waste.
For _momotorino_ see List m. k.
96
Naniha no miya nite yomeru uta hitotsu.
Yasumishishi 1
waga ohokimi no
ari-gayofu
Naniha no miya ha
isanatori 5
umi katatsukite
tama hirifu
hama he wo chikami
asa ha furu
nami no ’to sawaki 10
yufu nagi ni
kaji no ’to kikoyu
akatoki no
ne-same ni kikeba
umi chikami 15
shihohi no muta
urasu ni ha
chidori tsuma yobi
ashi-he ni ha
tadzu ga ne-doyomu 20
miru hito no
katari ni sureba
kiku hito no
mimakuhori suru
mikemukafu 25
Ajifu no miya ha
miredo akanu ka wo.
16 _muta_ = _tomo ni_.
22 _ni_ = _wo_.
24 _migahoshiku_.
27 _akanu_, unwearied of.
For _yasumishishi_, _isanatori_, _mikemukafu_ see List m. k.
97
Minume no ura wo suguru toki yomeru uta hitotsu.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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