As the late night sandpipers'
Cries draw near
The Narumi Marshes,
The salt tide rises
In the setting moon
Shosamme Sueyoshi (??~??)
小夜千鳥
声こそ近く
鳴海潟
傾く月に
潮や満つらん
正三位季能 (??~??)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Floating Bridge of Dreams 夢の浮橋
Shinkokinshu 1:38 新古今集
Spring’s night’s
Floating bridge of dreams
Fades away,
Scattering on the peaks
In a cloud banked sky
Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241)
春の夜の
夢の浮橋
とだえして、
峰に別るる
横雲の空
藤原定家 (1162-1241)
Spring’s night’s
Floating bridge of dreams
Fades away,
Scattering on the peaks
In a cloud banked sky
Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241)
春の夜の
夢の浮橋
とだえして、
峰に別るる
横雲の空
藤原定家 (1162-1241)
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Song of the Moon 月の和歌 Kokinshu #184 古今集184月の和歌
When I can see the moonlight
Come trickling between the tree branches,
Thoughts anticipating autumn are at end
木の間より 漏りくる
月の影みれば 心づくしの
秋はきにけり
Friday, August 8, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Man'yōshū #208 萬葉集
In autumn mountains
brimming with yellowed leaves,
seeking my lost love,
I also lose track of the mountain path.
brimming with yellowed leaves,
seeking my lost love,
I also lose track of the mountain path.
Kakimoto Hitomaro (c. 662-710)
原文: 秋山之 黄葉乎茂 迷流 妹乎将求 山道不知母
よみ:
よみ:
秋山の
黄葉を茂み
惑ひぬる
妹を求めむ
山道知らずも
柿本人麻呂 (c. 662-710)
Pear Blossoms 梨の花
in the pear blossoms
is a woman
reading a love letter in moonlight
Buson (1716-1764)
梨の花
月に書ミよむ
女有り
蕪村 (1716-1764)
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Unbent by the Rain ｢雨ニモマケズ｣
Unbent by the rain;
Unbent by the wind;
Unbent by the snow or summer’s heat;
With robust body;
Unselfish;
Never angry;
Ever gently smiling;
With just four cups of brown rice a day
and some miso and a few vegetables;
Doing each and every thing
Unselfishly, uncalculatingly;
Seeing, listening, understanding well;
Unforgetting;
Living in the shade of a grove of pines in a field
In a tiny thatched roof hut;
Who if there were a sick child to the east,
Would go nurse him well;
If there were an exhausted mother to the west,
Who’d go and carry a bundle of rice stalks for her;
If there were someone near death to the south,
Who’d go and tell her not to fear;
If there were quarrels and disputes to the north,
Who’d go tell them to stop squabbling over trifles;
Who sheds tears in times of drought;
Who walks uneasily when summer’s cold;
Who’s called a nobody by everyone;
Who’s neither praised
Nor of a ‘certain’ place;
This is the sort of person
I
Want to be!
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
Unbent by the wind;
Unbent by the snow or summer’s heat;
With robust body;
Unselfish;
Never angry;
Ever gently smiling;
With just four cups of brown rice a day
and some miso and a few vegetables;
Doing each and every thing
Unselfishly, uncalculatingly;
Seeing, listening, understanding well;
Unforgetting;
Living in the shade of a grove of pines in a field
In a tiny thatched roof hut;
Who if there were a sick child to the east,
Would go nurse him well;
If there were an exhausted mother to the west,
Who’d go and carry a bundle of rice stalks for her;
If there were someone near death to the south,
Who’d go and tell her not to fear;
If there were quarrels and disputes to the north,
Who’d go tell them to stop squabbling over trifles;
Who sheds tears in times of drought;
Who walks uneasily when summer’s cold;
Who’s called a nobody by everyone;
Who’s neither praised
Nor of a ‘certain’ place;
This is the sort of person
I
Want to be!
Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
雨ニモマケズ
風ニモマケズ
雪ニモ夏ノ暑サニモマケヌ
丈夫ナカラダヲモチ
慾ハナク
決シテ瞋ラズ
イツモシヅカニワラツテヰル
一日ニ玄米四合ト
味噌ト少シノ野菜ヲタベ
アラユルコトヲ
ジブンヲカンジヨウニ入レズニ
ヨクミキキシワカリ
ソシテワスレズ
野原ノ松ノ林ノ陰ノ
小サナ萱ブキノ小屋ニヰテ
東ニ病気ノコドモアレバ
行ツテ看病シテヤリ
西ニツカレタ母アレバ
行ツテソノ稲ノ束ヲ負ヒ
南ニ死ニサウナ人アレバ
行ツテコハガラナクテモイヽトイヒ
北ニケンクワヤソシヨウガアレバ
ツマラナイカラヤメロトイヒ
ヒデリノトキハナミダヲナガシ
サムサノナツハオロオロアルキ
ミンナニデクノボウトヨバレ
ホメラレモセズ
クニモサレズ
サウイフモノニ
ワタシハ
ナリタイ
宮沢賢治 (1896-1933)
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