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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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Songs <strong>of</strong> <strong>Japanese</strong> Children 179<br />

O-Kon San wa<br />

Doko ittaka ?<br />

" Tonari e<br />

O-imo tabeni ikimashita."<br />

"<br />

" O-okashii ! 6-okashii !<br />

" 0-Kon San <strong>of</strong> Gyama — where has she gone?" —<br />

"She went next door, to eat some potatoes." —" How<br />

very, very strange ! — how very, very strange " ^<br />

!<br />

( Tohyo play-song.)<br />

Muko no yama no<br />

Sumotori-bana wa<br />

Enyaraya to hikeba,<br />

O-te-te ga kireru, —<br />

O-te-te no kireta<br />

O-kusuri nai ka ?<br />

Aka no mo aru,<br />

Shiroi no mo aru.<br />

Onaji-ku nareba<br />

Akai no ni sho yo !<br />

When [with a cry <strong>of</strong>'\ Enyaraya ! we pull the violets ^ <strong>of</strong><br />

yonder mountain, our hands get torn.<br />

—<br />

-Is there no medi-<br />

> This song belongs to a game <strong>of</strong> hide-and-seek, played by girls.<br />

2 Literally, the " wrestler's-flower," — so called because <strong>of</strong> a game<br />

played with violet-flowers. Two children each take a violet, twist the<br />

heads <strong>of</strong> their flowers together, and pull the stalks in opposite direc-<br />

tions until one <strong>of</strong> them breaks. The player whose violet breaks first is

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