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
Nemokoro ni 1
mono wo omoheba
ihamu sube
semu sube mo nashi
imo to aga 5
te tadzusaharite
ashita ni ha
niha ni idetachi
yufuhe ni ha
toko uchi-harahi 10
shirotaheno
sode sashikahete
sa-neshi yo ya
tsune ni arikeru
ashihikino 15
yamadori koso ha
wo mukahi ni
tsuma-dohi su to ihe
utsusemino
hito naru are ya 20
nani su to ka
hito hi hito yo mo
sakari-wite
nageki kofuramu
koko ’moheba 25
mune koso itame
soko yuwe ni
kokoro nagu ya to
Takamato no
yama ni mo nu ni mo 30
uchi-yukite
asobi arukedo
hana nomi shi
nihohite areba
miru goto ni 35
mashite shinubayu
ika ni shite
wasuremu mono so
kohi chifu mono wo.
17 _wo mukahi_, over the hills.
28 _nagu_ = _nagusamuru_.
3-9 inversion.
For _shirotaheno_, _ashihikino_, _utsusemino_ see List m. k.
MAKI IX, KAMI
Kusagusa no uta.
104
Kamitsufusa (Kadzusa) Suwe no Tamana no wotome wo yomeru uta
hitotsu-mata mizhika uta.
Shinagatori 1
Aha ni tsukitaru
adzusayumi
Suwe no Tamana ha
muna wake no 5
hirokeki wagimo
koshi hoso no
sugaru wotome no
sono kaho no
kirakirashiki ni 10
hana no goto
wemite tatereba
tamahokono
michi yuku hito ha
ono ga yuku 15
michi ha yukazute
yobanaku ni
kado ni itarinu
sashinarabu
tonari no kimi ha 20
tachimachi ni
ono tsuma ’karete
kohanaku ni
kagi sahe matsuru
hito no mina 25
kaku madohereba
uchi-shinahi
yorite so imo ha
tahasete arikeru.
Kanado ni shi 1
hito no ki-tateba
yo naka ni mo
mi ha tanashirazu
idete so ahikeru. 5
22 _’karete_ = _wakarete_.
24 _kagi_, for the treasure it locks up.
27 seems to be equivalent to _tori-yosofu_ or _katachi tsukurofu_.
The m. k. (1) applies to A[ha], (3) to Suwe (read homophonously as
bow-end).
For _shinagatori_, _adzusayumi_, _tamahokono_ see List m. k.
105
Midzunoye no Urashima no ko wo yomeru uta.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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