A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

Oh I
how
Songs of Japanese Children 219
{Province of Suruga.)
Bo ya wa iiko da !
Nenneshina
!
Kono ko no kawaisa
Kagiri nai, —
Yama de no ki no kazu,
Kaya no kazu,
Ten e nobotte
Hoshi no kazu,
Numadzu e kudareba
Senbon matsu, —
Senbon-matsubara,
Ko-matsubara,
Matsuba no kazu yori
Mada kawai !
good a child this boy is ! Sleep, my child I —
My love of this child is incalculable as the number of the
trees in the mountain-forest, — as the number of the fruits
of the kaya, — as the number of the stars in the sky above,
— as the thousands of the pines of Numadzu below, — as
the myriad great pines of the pine-forest, — as the myriad
incalculable even
little pines of the young pine-wood : more
than the leaves of those pine-trees, is my love of this little
one
!
same way " okori " mi^ht mean either " to be angry " or " ague."
Ohorimushi properly signifies the "ague-insect," and is the popular
name of a large moth, believed to cause chills and fever.