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三日幻境Three Days' Phantom World
Mikka Genkyō
by 北村 透谷 · Kitamura Tōkoku
JLPT N1ArticleClassical / archaic
A mysterious three-day journey into a phantom world.
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A poetic reflection on nostalgia and the fleeting nature of life, as the narrator recalls his homeland and lost companions.
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(上)人生何すれぞ常に忙促たる、半生の過夢算ふるに遑なし。悲しいかな、我も亦た浮萍を追ひ迷雲を尋ねて、この夕徒らに往事を追懐するの身となれり。常に惟ふ、志を行はんとするものは必らずしも終生を労役するに及ばず。詩壇の正直男(ゴールドスミス)この情を賦して言へることあり。I still had hopes, my long vexation past,Hero to return――and die at home at last.浮世に背き微志を蓄へてより、世路酷だ峭嶢、烈々たる炎暑、凄々たる冬日、いつはつべしとも知らぬ旅路の空をうち眺めて、屡、正直男と共に故郷なつかしく袖を涙にひぢしことあり。われは函嶺の東、山水の威霊少なからぬところに産れたれば、我が故郷はと問はゞそこと答ふるに躊躇はねども、往時の産業は破れ、知己親縁の風流雲散せざるはなく、快く疇昔を語るべき古老の存するなし。
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