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Appendix I.

JAPANESE TEXT OF THE SONGS PRESERVED IN THE "KO-JI-KI," OR "RECORDS OF ANCIENT MATTERS," TRANSLITERATED INTO ROMAN. 1

Context

Appendix I is Chamberlain's transliteration into Roman letters of every poem-song embedded in the Kojiki, presented in the order of the sections where they occur in the main text. This was a remarkable scholarly act in 1882, when the first edition of his translation appeared, and it is still the principal English-language access point for readers who want to feel the metrical and phonological texture of Old Japanese. The songs are mostly five-line verses in alternating syllabic counts that anticipate the later 5-7-5-7-7 tanka form, but the shapes here are looser — older, less standardized, sometimes nine or eleven lines, often with refrain-words (makura-kotoba and uta-makura) that anchor them to specific places. Chamberlain's choice to give the originals separately rather than try to render them metrically into English is the same scholarly modesty A.E. Waite used the same year for the Hebrew of the Sepher Yetzirah — the translator who refuses to fake what cannot be reproduced.well-read-friend

I. (SECT. XIX, NOTE 6.)

Ya-kumo tatsu

Idzumo ya-he-gaki

Tsuma-gomi ni

Ya-he-gaki-tsukuru

Sono ya-he-gaki wo

II. (SECT. XXIV, NOTE 4.)

Ya-chi-hoko no Kami no mikoto ha

Ya-shima-kuni

Tsuma magi-kanete

Toho-tohoshi

Koshi no kuni ni

Sakashi-me wo

Ari to kikoshite

Kuhashi-me wo

Ari to kikoshite

Sa-yobahi ni

Ari-tatashi

Yobahi, ni

Ari-kayohase

Tachi ga wo mo

Imada tokazute p. A2

Osuhi wo mo

Imada tokaneba

Wotome no Nasu ya ita-to wo

Osoburahi

Wa ga tatasereba

Hikodzurahi

Wa ga tatasereba

Awo-yama ni

Nuye ha naki

Sa-nu tsu tori

Kigishi ha toyomu

Niha tsu tori

Kake ha naku

Uretaku mo

Naku-naru tori ka

Kono tori mo

Uchi-yame-kosene

Ishitafu ya

Ama-hase-dzukahi

Koto no Katari-goto mo

Ko wo ba

III. (SECT. XXIV, NOTE 5.)

Ya-chi-hoko no Kami no mikoto

Nuye-kusa no Me ni shi areba

Wa ga kokoro

Ura-su no tori zo

Ima koso ha

Chi-dori ni arame

Nochi ha

Na-dori ni aramu wo

Inochi ha

Na shise-tamahi so

Ishi-tafu ya

Ama-hase-dzukahi

Koto no Katori-gotomo

Ko wo ba

IV. (SECT. XXIV, NOTE 7.)

Awo-yama ni

Hi ga kakuraba

Nuba-tama no Yo ha ide-namu

Asa-hi no Wemi-sakaye-kite

Taku-dzumu no Shiroki tadamuki

Awa-yuki no Wakayaru mune wo

So-dataki

Tataki-managari

Ma-tama-de

Tama-de sahi-maki p. A3

Momo-naga ni

I ha nasamu wo

Aya ni

Na kohi-kikoshi

Ya-chi-hoko no Kami no mikoto

Koto no Katari-goto mo

Ko wo ba

V. (SECT. XXV, NOTE 2.)

Nuba-tama no Kuroki mi keshi wo

Ma-tsubusa ni

Tori-yosohi

Oki tsu tori

Muna miru toki

Ha-tatagi mo

Kore ha fusahazu

He tsu nami

So ni nugi-ute

So-ni-dori no Awoki mi keshi wo

Ma-tsubusa ni

Tori-yosohi

Oki tsu tori

Muna miru toki

Ha-tatagi mo

Ko mo fusahazu

He tsu nami

So ni nugi-ute

Yama-gata ni

Magishi atane tsuki 2

Some-ki ga shiru ni

Shime-koromo wo

Ma-tsubusa ni

Tori-yosohi

Oki tsu tori

Muna miru toki

Ha-tatagi mo

Ko shi yoroshi

Itokoya no Imo no mikoto

Mura-tori no Wa ga mure-i-naba

Hike-tori no Wa ga hike-i-naba

Nakazhi to ha

Na ha ifu to mo

Yamato no Hito-moto susuki

Unakabushi

Na ga nakasamaku

Asa-ame no Sa-giri ni tatamu zo 3 p. A4

Waka-kusa no Tsuma no mikoto.

Koto no Katari-goto mo

Ko wo ba

VI. (SECT. XXV, NOTE 3.)

Ya-chi-hoko no Kami no mikoto ya

A ga oho-kuni

Nushi koso ha

Wo ni i-maseba

Uchi-miru

Shima no saki-zaki

Kaki-miru

Iso no saki ochizu

Waka-kusa no Tsuma motase-rame

A ha mo yo

Me ni shi areba

Na wokite

Wo ha nashi

Na wokite

Tsuma ha nashi

Aya-kaki no Fuhayaga shita ni

Mushi-busuma

Nikoya ga shita ni

Taku-busuma

Sayagu ga shita ni

Awa-yuki no Wakayaru mune wo

Taku-dzunu no Shiroki tadamuki

So-dataki

Tataki-managari

Ma-tama-de

Tama-de sashi-maki

Momo-naga ni

I wo shi nase

Toyo mi ki

Tate-matsurase

VII. (SECT. XXXI, NOTE 33.)

Ame naru ya

Oto-tanabata no Unagaseru

Tama no mi sumaru

Mi sumaru ni

Ana-dama haya

Mi tani futa watarasu 4

Ajishiki

Taka-hiko-ne no Kami zo ya p. A5

VIII. (SECT. XLII, NOTE 18.)

Context

Item VIII (Section XLII, Note 18) marks a transition in the appendix — the songs from this point on belong to the Yamato-takeru cycle and the early imperial expansion narrative of partB. Yamato-takeru's death-song at Nobo on his way home from the eastern campaign ('My beloved wife! / I left her sword by her bed, / Alas! that sword') is one of the most elegiac passages in the Kojiki and one of the songs Motowori Norinaga in his eighteenth-century commentary (the Kojiki-den, completed 1798 after thirty-five years of work) read as proving the unbroken pathos of the native Japanese sensibility — the line that runs from Yamato-takeru through the Heian poets to the modern haiku tradition. Whatever one makes of that nationalist literary genealogy, the song itself is a piece of fifth- or sixth-century lyric of remarkable economy.well-read-friend

Aka-dama ha

Wo sahe hikaredo

Shira-tama no Kimi ga yosohi shi

Tafutoku ari-keri

IX. (SECT. XLII, NOTE 19.)

Oki tsu tori

Kamo-doku shima ni

Waga wi-neshi

Imo ha wasurezhi

Yo no koto-goto ni

X. (SECT. XLVII, NOTES 16 AND 17.)

Uda no taka-ki ni 5

Shigi-wana haru 6

Wa ga matsu ya

Shigi ha sayarazu

Isukuhashi

Kujira sayaru

Konami ga

Na kohasaba

Tachi-soba no Mi no nakeku wo 7

Kokishi hiwene

Uhanari ga

Na kohasaba

Ich-saka-ki mi no Ohokeku wo

Kokida hiwene

Ye ye

Shi ya ko shi ya

[Wo ha igonofu zo]

Aa shi yo ko shi ya

XI. (SECT. XLVIII, NOTE 4.)

Osaka no Oho-muro-ya ni

Hito saha ni

Ki-iri-wori

Hito saha ni

Iri-wori to mo

Mitsu-mitsushi

Kume no ko ga

Kubu-tsutsu-i

Ishi-tsutsu-i mochi

Uchite shi yamamu p. A6

Mitsu-mitsushi

Kume no ko-ra ga

Kubu-tsutsu-i

Ishi-tsutsu-i mochi

Ina utaba yorashi

XII. (SECT. XLIX, NOTE 2.)

Mitsu mitsushi

Kume no ko-ra ga

Aha-fu ni ha

Ka-mira hito-moto

So ne ga moto

So ne me tsunagite

Uchite shi yamamu

XIII. (SECT. XLIX, NOTE 3.)

Mitsu-mitsushi

Kume no ko-ra ga

Kaki-moto ni

Uweshi hazhikami

Kuchi hibiku

Ware ha wasurezhi

Uchite shi yamanu

XIV. (SECT. XLIX, NOTE 4.)

Kamu-kaze no Ise no umi no Ohishi

Hahi-motohorofu

Shitadami no I-hahi-motohori

Uchite shi yamamu

XV. (SECT. XLIX, NOTE 6.)

Tata namete

Inasa no yama no Ko no ma yo mo

I-yuki-mamorahi

Tatakaheba

Ware ba ya wenu.

Shima tsu tori

U-kahi ga tomo

Ima suke ni kone

XVI. (SECT. LI, NOTE 17.)

Yamato no Takasazhi-nu wo

Nana-yuku

Wotome-domo

Tare wo shi makamu p. A7

XVII. (SECT. LI, NOTE 19. )

Katsu-gatsu mo

Iya-saki-dateru

Ye wo shi makamu

XVIII. (SECT. LI, NOTE 21.)

A me tsu tsu

Chi dori mashi to to [?]

Nado sakeru to-me

XIX. (SECT. LI, NOTE 22.)

Wotome ni

Taka ni ahamu to Wa ga sakeru to-me

XX. (SECT. LI, NOTE 28.)

Ashi-hara no Shigekoki wo-ya ni

Suga-tatami

Iyasaya shikite

Wa ga futari neshi

XXI. (SECT. LII, NOTE 5 fukanu to su

XXII. (SECT. LII, NOTE 6.)

Unebi-yama

Hiru ha kumo to wi

Yufu sareba

Kaze fukamu to zo

Ko no ha sayageru

XXIII. (SECT. LXVI, NOTE. 7)

Ko ha ya

Mima-ki-iri-biko ha ya

Ono ga wo wo

Nusumi shi semu to Shiri tsu to yo

I-yuki-tagahi

Mahe tsu to yo

I-yuki-tagahi

Ukagahaku

Shirani to Mima-ki-iri-biko ha ya p. A8

XXIV. (SECT. LXXXI, NOTE 4.)

Yatsumesasu

Idzumo-takeru ga

Hakeru tachi

Tsudzura saha maki

Sa-mi nashi ni ahare

XXV. (SECT. LXXXIV, NOTE 8.)

Sanesashi

Sogamu no wo-nu ni

Moyuru hi no Ho-naka ni tachite

Tohishi kimi ha mo

XXVI. (SECT. LXXXVI, NOTES 3 AND 5.)

Nihibari

Tsukuha wo sugite

Iku yo ka netsuru—

Ka-ga nabete

Yo ni ha kokono-yo

Hi ni ha towo-ka wo

XXVII. (SECT. LXXXVII, NOTE 3.)

Hisa-kata no Ame no Kagu-yama

To-kama ni

Sa-wataru kuhi

Hiha-boso

Tawaya-gahina wo

Makamu to ha

Are ha suredo

Se-nemu to ha

Are ha omohedo

Na ga keseru

Osuhi no suso ni

Tsuki tatanamu yo

Taka-hikaru

Hi no mi ko

Yasumishishi

Wa ga oho-kimi

Aratama no Toshi ga ki-fureba

Aratama no Tsuki ha kihe-yuku

Ubena-ubena

Kimi machi-ga#a ni

Wa ga keseru

Osuhi no suso ni

Tsuki tatanamu yo p. A9

XXIX. (SECT. LXXXIX, NOTE 6.)

Wohari ni

Tada ni mukaheru

Wotsu no saki naru

Hito-tsu matsu a se wo

Hito-tsu matsu

Hito ni ariseba

Tachi hake-mashi wo winu kise-mashi wo

Hito-tsu matsu a se wo

XXX. (SECT. LXXXIX, NOTE 11.)

Yamato ha

Kuni no mahoroba

Tatanatsuku

Awo-kaki yama-gomoreru

Yamato shi uruhashi 8

XXXI. (SECT. LXXXIX, NOTE 11.)

Inochi no Mata-kemu hito ha

Tatami-komo

Heguri no yama no Kuma-kashi ga ha wo

Uzu ni sase

Sono ko

XXXII. (SECT. LXXXIX, NOTE 11.)

Hashikeyashi

Wagihe no kata yo

Kumo-wi tachi-ku mo

Wotome no Toko no be ni

Wa ga okishi

Tsurugi no tachi

Sono tachi ha ya

XXXIV. (SECT. XC, NOTE 3.)

Nadzuki no Ta no ina-gara ni

Ina-gara ni

Hahi-motorofu

Tokoro-dzura 9

. . . . .

XXXV. (SECT. XC, NOTE 5.)

Asa-zhinu-hara

Koshi nadzumu

Sora ha yukazu

Ashi yo yuku na

XXXVI. (SECT. XC, NOTE 7.)

Umi-ga yukeba

Koshi nadzumu

Oho-kahara no Uwe-gusa

Umi-ga ha

Isayofu 10

Hama tsu chi-dori

Hama yo ha yukazu

Iso-dzutafu