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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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Songs <strong>of</strong> <strong>Japanese</strong> Children 225<br />

feed you with the honorable chopsticks <strong>of</strong> your father?—<br />

The honorable chopsticks <strong>of</strong> father smell <strong>of</strong> fish. — Shall I<br />

feed you with the honorable chopsticks <strong>of</strong> your mother ?<br />

Mother's honorable chopsticks smell <strong>of</strong> milk.— Then I<br />

shall feed you with the honorable chopsticks <strong>of</strong> your elder<br />

sister.— Sleep I pleasantly go to sleep I<br />

{Province <strong>of</strong> Settsu.) ,<br />

Nenneko, sann^ko, sakaya no ko<br />

Sakaya wo iyanara yome ni yaro.<br />

Yome no dogu wa, nani-nani zo ?<br />

Tansu, nagamochi, hitsu, todana<br />

Ryukyu-zutsumi ga rokka aru<br />

Furoshiki-zutsumi wa kazu shirezu<br />

Sorehodo koshirae yaru-kara-nya,<br />

Issh5 sararete modoruna yo<br />

— Sorya mata okkasan doyoku na<br />

Sengoku tsundaru fune saemo,<br />

Kaze ga kawareba modoru mono<br />

!<br />

;<br />

; ! ! !<br />

Sleep, sleep, my child,— child <strong>of</strong> the saU-&&2Xtr\ If<br />

you do not Hke this sj^^'-house, I will send you away as a<br />

bride. What are the bridal-gifts that will be given ? A<br />

tansu (chest <strong>of</strong> drawers), a nagamochi (quilt-chest), one<br />

hitsu (clothes-chest), one todana (cupboard). Of Ryukyu ^<br />

goods the packages are six ; — as for the presents wrapped<br />

1 Ryhuyu is the <strong>Japanese</strong> name <strong>of</strong> the Loochoo Islands. Various<br />

textile and other fabrics, made in the Loochoo islands, are greatly<br />

prized in Japan.<br />

IS<br />

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