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
Yachihokono 1
kami no mi yo yori
momofuneno
hatsuru tomari to
Yashima kuni 5
momo funa hito no
sadameteshi
Minume no ura ha
asa kaze ni
ura nami sawaki 10
yufu nami ni
tamamo ha ki-yoru
shira manago
kiyoki hama-he ha
yuki kaheri 15
miredomo akazu
ubeshi koso
miru hito goto ni
katari-tsugi
shinubikerashiki 20
momoyo hete
shinubaye yukamu
kiyoki shira hama.
1-7 introductory to 8. 9 to end descriptive and eulogistic.
13 _manago_ = _masago_, sand, pebbles.
For _yachihokono_, _momofuneno_ see List m. k.
MAKI VIII, KAMI
Haru no kusagusa no uta.
98
Kusaka yama no uta.
Oshiteru 1
Naniha wo sugite
uchi nabiku
Kusaka no yama wo
yufu-gure ni 5
aga koye-kureba
yama mo se ni
sakeru ashibi no
ashikaranu
kimi wo itsushika 10
yukite haya mimu.
7 _se ni_, crowdedly, thickly.
8, 9 sound-quibble, _ashibi_ and _ashikaranu_.
10, 11 There is inversion here.
For _oshiteru_ and _uchinabiku_ see List m. k.
99
Sakura no hana no uta.
Wotomera ga 1
kazashi no tame ni
miyabi-wo no
katsura no tame to
shikimaseru 5
kuni no hatate ni
saki nikeru
sakura no hana no
nihohi ha mo ana ni!
Haru no shitashimi uta.
100
(Tempyô) itsutose to ifu toshi midzunoto tori nochi no yayohi Kanamura
ga Morokoshi ni tsukahasu tsukahi ni okureru uta.
Tamatasuki 1
kakenu toki naku
iki no wo ni
aga ’mofu kimi ha
utsusemino 5
[yo no hito nareba
ohokimi no]
mikoto kashikomi
yufu sareba
tadzu ga tsuma yobu 10
Naniha-gata
Mitsu no saki yori
ohobune ni
ma kaji shizhi nuki
shira-nami no 15
takaki arumi wo
shima-dzutahi
i-wakare yukeba
todomareru
are ha nusa tori 20
ihahitsutsu
kimi wo ba matamu
haya kaherimase!
1-8 are a preface.
2 without breach of truce.
3 _iki no wo_, thread of life.
6, 7 Interpolated on the authority of Keichiu.
16 _arumi_ = _aruru umi_.
For _tamatasuki_, _utsusemino_ see List m. k.
Natsu no shitashimi uta.
101
Ohotomo no Yakamochi ga tachibana wo yojite Sakanohe no Oho-Iratsume ni
okureru uta.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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