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
Ashinoya no 1
Unahi wotome no
ya tose ko mo
kata-ohi no toki yo
wo-hanari ni 5
kami taku made ni
narabi woru
ihe ni mo miyezu
utsuyufuno
komorite maseba 10
miteshikado
ifusemi toki no
kakihonasu
hito no tofu toki
Chinu wotoko 15
Unahi wotoko no
fuseyataki
susushiki kihohi
ahi-yobahi
shikeru toki ni 20
yaki-tachi no
takami oshineri
shira mayumi
yuki tori ohite
midzu ni iri 25
hi ni mo iramu to
tachi-mukahi
kihoheru toki ni
wagimoko ga
haha ni kataraku 30
shidzu ta-maki
iyashiki a ga yuwe
masurawono
arasofu mireba
ikeritomo 35
afubeku arame ya
shishikushiro
yomi ni matamu to
komorinuno
shitabahe okite 40
uchi nageki
imo ga yukereba
Chinu wotoko
sono yo ime ni mi
tori tsudzuki 45
ohi yukereba
okuretaru
Unahi wotoko-i
ame afugi
sakebi orabi 50
tsuchi ni fushi
kikamu takebite
mokoro wo ni
makete ha arazhi to
kakihaki no 55
wo-tachi tori-haki
tokorotsura
tadzune yukereba
ya gara dochi
i-yuki tsudohi 60
nagaki yo ni
shirushi ni semu to
to hoki yo ni
katari tsugamu to
wotome haka 65
naka ni tsukuri oki
wotoko haka
konata kanata ni
tsukuri okeru
yuweyoshi kikite 70
shiranedomo
nihi mo no goto mo
ne nakitsuru ka mo!
Haka no ’he no 1
ko no ye nabikeri
kikishi goto
Chinu wotoko ni shi
yori ni kerashi mo. 5
2 _Unahi_ is in Musashi.
5 _wo-hanari_, little (term of endearment) parted [locks].
12 _ifusemi_, _ibusemi_, here = anxious, impatient.
15 _Chinu_ is in Idzumi, mentioned both in K. and N.
23 _mayumi_, Euonymus Hamiltoniana, Max.
24 _yuki_, quiver (_yumi-oki_?).
29 _wagimoko_ = _waga imoho_, here means _their_ mistress, i.e. _Unahi
no wotome_.
40 _shitabahe_ = undercreep--_okite_, secretly.
47 _okuretaru_, being behind, the Unahi wotoko was jealous of his rival
being the first to follow their mistress in death.
48 _wotoko-i_. Dr. Aston thinks this _i_ may be the Korean particle.
53 _mokoro wo ni_--_hito no gotoku ni_.
56 _wo-tachi_, small sword, dagger.
59 _ya gara dochi_ = _shinzoku_.
For _utsuyufuno_, _kakihonasu_, _fuseyataki_, _masurawono_,
_shishikushiro_, _komorinuno_, _tokorotsura_ see List m. k.
MAKI X, KAMI
Natsu no kusagusa no uta.
126
Tori wo yomeru.
Masurawono 1
idetachi mukafu
Furuzato no
Kaminabi yama ni
akekureba 5
tsumi no sayeda ni
yufu sareba
ko-matsu ga ure ni
sato-bito no
kaki-kofuru made 10
yama-biko no
aho-toyomu made
hototogisu
tsuma kohisurashi
sayo naka ni naku! 15
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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