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
Ohobuneno 1
omohi-tanomite
matsu kane no
iya toho-nagaku
aga ’moheru 5
kimi ni yoriteba
koto no yuwe mo
naku ari koso to
yufu tasuki
kata ni tori-kake 10
ihahi-he wo
ihahi hori-suwe
ame tsuchi no
kami ni so aga nomu
ita mo sube nami. 15
For _ohobuneno_ see List m. k.
MAKI XIII, SHIMO
165
Mihakashi wo 1
Tsurugi no ike no
hachisu ha ni
tamareru midzu no
yukuhe naku 5
aga seshi toki ni
afuteshi to
uraheru kimi wo
na ine so to
haha kikosedomo 10
waga kokoro
Kiyosumi no ike no
ike no soko
are ha wasurezhi
tada ni afu made. 15
Inishihe no 1
kami no toki yori
ahikerashi
ima kokoro ni mo
tsune wasurayezu! 5
1-4 are introductory to _yukuhe naku_--there are several
interpretations of the whole passage.
1 _wo_ must be taken as equivalent to _no_.
6 _seshi toki_, made, that is, appointed time.
8 _uraheru_--the meaning of this word is obscure. It is written (in
script) as _ahi aru_ or _aheru_, nearly equal to _aru_; _uraheru_ is
Motowori’s reading.
10 _kikosedomo_ = _notamahedomo_.
14 _are_ = _ware_.
166
Mi Yoshinu no 1
maki-tatsu yama ni
shizhi ni ofuru
yama suga no ne no
nemokoro ni 5
waga ’mofu kimi ha
ohokimi no
make no manimani
hinazakaru
kimi wosame ni to 10
muratorino
asa tachi-yukeba
okuretaru
are ka kohinamu
tabi nareba 15
kimi ka shinubamu
ihamu sube
semu sube shirani
ashihikino
yama no konure ni 20
hafutsutano
wakare no amata
woshiku mo aru ka mo.
For _suganoneno_, _muratorino_, _ashihikino_, _hafutsutano_ see List m.
k.
167
Mi Yoshinu no 1
Mikane no take ni
ma naku so
ame ha furu chifu
tokizhiku so 5
yuki ha furu chifu
sono ame no
ma naki ga goto
sono yuki no
tokizhiku ga goto 10
ma mo ochizu
are ha so kofuru
imo ga tadaka ni.
168
Uchihisatsu 1
Miyake no hara ni
hita tsuchi ni
ashi fumi tsurane
natsukusa wo 5
koshi ni nadzumi
ikanaru ya
hito no ko yuwe so
kayohasu mo ago
ubena ubena 10
haha ha shirazu
ubena ubena
chichi ha shirazu
minanowata
kaguroki kami ni 15
ma yufu mochi
azane yuhitari
Yamato no
tsuge no wo-gushi
osahe sasu 20
shikitahe no ko ha
sore so aga tsuma!
9 _ago_, my prince.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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