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
Afumi no ’mi 1
tomari a-so ari
Yasoshimano
shima no saki-zaki
ari-tateru 5
hana tachibana wo
hotsuye ni
mochi hiki-kake
nakatsuye ni
ikaruga kake 10
shidzu ye ni
shime wo kake
shi ga haha wo
toraku wo shirani
shi ga chichi wo 15
toraku wo shirani
i-sobahi woru yo
ikaruga to
shime to.
2 _a-so_ = _yaso_, eighty, i.e. indefinite number.
17 May be an error for _asobahi_. There is, however, a word _sobafu_,
trifle, play.
For _yasoshimano_ see List m. k.
140
Ohokimi no 1
mikoto kashikomi
miredo akanu
Nara yama koyete
maki tsumu 5
Idzumi no kaha no
hayaki se ni
sawo sashi-watari
chihayaburu
Uji no watari no 10
tagi tsu se wo
mi-tsutsu watarite
Afumi-ji no
Afusaka yama ni
tamuke shite 15
aga koye yukeba
sasanamino
Shiga no Karasaki
sakiku araba
mata kaheri-mimu 20
michi no kuma
yaso kuma goto ni
nagekitsutsu
aga sugi yukeba
iya toho ni 25
sato sakari-kinu
iya taka ni
yama mo koye-kinu
tsurugitachi
saya yu nuki-dete 30
Ikako yama
ikaga aga semu
yuku he shirazute.
Ame tsuchi wo 1
nageki kohi nomi
sakiku araba
mata kaherimimu
Shiga no Karasaki. 5
18, 19 Note the jingle _Karasaki sakiku_.
29, 30 Epithetical of Ikako--by a word-jingle connected with _i-kaku_
(_kaku_, to attack).
1 i.e. _ame tsuchi no kami_.
2 _nageki kohi_, sigh and implore.
For _chihayaburu_, _sasanamino_ see List m. k.
141
Momodzutafu 1
Minu no kuni no
Takakita no
Kukuri no miya ni
tsuki ni hi ni 5
yukamashi sato wo
ari to kikite
waga kayohi-ji no
Okiso yama
Minu no yama 10
nabike to
hito ha fumedomo
kaku yore to
hito ha tsukedomo
kokoro naki 15
yama no
Okiso yama
Minu no yama.
1-7 introductory.
6 _yukamashi_, desirable to visit, not in itself but because a fair
maid dwells there.
8-14 declare difficulty of traffic with his love; 15 to end, complain
of the hills that bar his way to her; 11, 12 and 13, 14 reverse the
order of these couplets, _hito ha fumedomo nabike to (itte) …_ and
they are more intelligible.
For _momodzutafu_ see List m. k.
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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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