This entry may be a little melancholy.
I sometimes read a certain site that is written about the author's daily life and sometimes old Japanese poems. She usually writes an entry in modern Japanese, but she writes a sad entry in old Japanese once every few months. I'll translate five sentences into English.
-On a winter night, someone's words helped me when I nearly went mad.
-After he left and I had nothing to do, I realized that I loved him
-On a rainy winter day, I asked you "where are you?", but I received no reponse.
-It has been raining for a long time and I have no where to go, so I wish I could become a bubble of a stream.
-I run after you again and again, but I can't catch up with you, and I found a cluster amaryllis in the street in autumn.
The second one was quoted from old Japanese literature. Reading only these sad entries again, especially the last one, I noticed these sorrowful meanings because a cluster amaryllis reminds Japanese people of graves and death. Anyone who has not studied old Japanese would not recognize the meaning of them.These sentences are writer's original except a quotation.
I think she might have written it in old Japanese to make it more ambiguous. I'm not sure if this is a fiction or a true story.
I can show you only on excerpt:
ある時は ありのすさびに 語らはで 恋しきものと 別れてぞ知る
If you are a Japanese learner and memorize this sentence, you already would be an Japanese expert. You can't use that phrase anywhere though.
I sometimes read a certain site that is written about the author's daily life and sometimes old Japanese poems. She usually writes an entry in modern Japanese, but she writes a sad entry in old Japanese once every few months. I'll translate five sentences into English.
-On a winter night, someone's words helped me when I nearly went mad.
-After he left and I had nothing to do, I realized that I loved him
-On a rainy winter day, I asked you "where are you?", but I received no reponse.
-It has been raining for a long time and I have no where to go, so I wish I could become a bubble of a stream.
-I run after you again and again, but I can't catch up with you, and I found a cluster amaryllis in the street in autumn.
The second one was quoted from old Japanese literature. Reading only these sad entries again, especially the last one, I noticed these sorrowful meanings because a cluster amaryllis reminds Japanese people of graves and death. Anyone who has not studied old Japanese would not recognize the meaning of them.These sentences are writer's original except a quotation.
I think she might have written it in old Japanese to make it more ambiguous. I'm not sure if this is a fiction or a true story.
I can show you only on excerpt:
ある時は ありのすさびに 語らはで 恋しきものと 別れてぞ知る
If you are a Japanese learner and memorize this sentence, you already would be an Japanese expert. You can't use that phrase anywhere though.
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