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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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180 <strong>Japanese</strong> Miscellany<br />

cine for the torn hand? Red medicine there is, and also<br />

white. — If the two medicines are equally good, then I shall<br />

certainly take the red.<br />

(Dialogue Song— Prcmince <strong>of</strong> I^umo.)<br />

" Muko no yama no<br />

Kawazu ga naku ga<br />

Nashite naku ka .?<br />

Samute naku ka ?<br />

Himoji te naku-ka ?<br />

Himojikya ta tsukure."<br />

" Ta tsukuriya kitanai."<br />

" Kitanakya arag."<br />

" Arauya tsumetai."<br />

" Tsumetakya atare."<br />

" Atarya atsui."<br />

" Atsukya shizare."<br />

" Shizara nomi ga ku."<br />

" Nomi ga kuya korose."<br />

"<br />

" Korosha kawai !<br />

" Kawaikya daitene."<br />

" Daitenerya nomi ga kii."<br />

" Nomi ga kQya korose." . . .<br />

&c., &c.<br />

the loser. Perhaps the reader will be reminded <strong>of</strong> our " wishing-bone "<br />

sport ; but in the <strong>Japanese</strong> ptay the flowers are supposed to represent<br />

wrestlers.<br />

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