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
Itoko 1
nase no kimi
wori wori te
mono ni i-yuku to
Kara kuni no 5
tora tofu kami wo
ike-tori ni
ya tsu tori mochi-ki
sono kaha wo
tatami ni sashi 10
yahe tatami
Heguri no yama ni
u-tsuki to
sa-tsuki no hodo ni
kusuri-gari 15
tsukafuru toki ni
ashihikino
kono kata-yama ni
futatsu tatsu
ichihi ga moto ni 20
adzusayumi
yatsu tabasami
hime kabura
yatsu tabasami
shishi matsu to 25
aga woru toki ni
sawo-shika no
ki-tachi nagekaku
tachimachi ni
are ha shinubeshi 30
ohokimi ni
are ha tsukahemu
aga tsunu ha
mi kasa no hayashi
aga mimi ha 35
mi sumi no tsubo
aga mera ha
ma sumi no kagami
aga tsume ha
mi yumi no yubazu 40
aga kera ha
mi fude no hayashi
aga kaha ha
mi hako no kaha ni
aga shishi ha 45
mi namasu hayashi
aga kimo mo
mi namasu hayashi
aga migi ha
mi shiho no hayashi 50
oi-hatenu
waga mi hitotsu ni
nana-he hana saku
ya-he hana saku to
mawoshi-hayasane 55
mawoshi-hayasane.
1-10 make a phrasal m. k. to 11, 12.
1, 2 _itoko nase_, terms of endearment (_itohoshi ko nanji no se_?).
3 _wori-worite_ implies long union of husband and wife.
4 _mono ni i-yuku_; an exclamatory phrase denoting an intention or wish
to go somewhere or do something.
8 _ya tsu_, eight head of, i.e. many-head of.
17 _ashihiki_ = m. k.
18 _kata-yama_, out of the way, remote mountain, i.e. from City-Royal.
But Heguri is in Yamato.
34 _hayashi_, to complete, adorn, make flourish, finish off.
38 _ma sumi_, right clear, the script is _kariji_.
41 _kera_, ‘hairs’, like _mera_ above, ‘eyes’.
46, 48, 50 _hayashi_, chop, mince.
55 _hayasane_ or _hayazane_, precative imperative; _hayasu_, to praise.
For _ashihikino_, _adzusayumi_, see List m. k.
211
Kani no tane ni omohi wo nobete yomeru uta.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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