A Six-Foot Sickbed on The Tale of Genji: “Scholars of Japanese literature and native learning have devoted themselves mainly to studying The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book and the like, and, dismissing everything from the Tokugawa period on as vulgar, they ignore it, so they know nothing of three hundred years of recent literature. [auto-translated]”
A Six-Foot Sickbed on The Pillow Book: “Scholars of Japanese literature and native learning have devoted themselves mainly to studying The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book and the like, and, dismissing everything from the Tokugawa period on as vulgar, they ignore it, so they know nothing of three hundred years of recent literature. [auto-translated]”
A Six-Foot Sickbed on Sarumino: “There is a verse on the horned owl in Sarumino. Besides that one, Sarumino has one more horned-owl verse, but the oldest owl verse I know of appears in a haikai book called Ashiwake-bune, from around the seventh year of Genroku. [auto-translated]”
A Six-Foot Sickbed on Ashiwake-bune: “There is a verse on the horned owl in Sarumino. Besides that one, Sarumino has one more horned-owl verse, but the oldest owl verse I know of appears in a haikai book called Ashiwake-bune, from around the seventh year of Genroku. [auto-translated]”
A Six-Foot Sickbed on Kyōgenki: “I borrowed a book called Kyōgenki from someone and read two or three pieces, and found much of interest in it. I do not fully know how kyōgen developed, but it appears on the stage together with Noh as its comic, vulgar counterpart. [auto-translated]”
A Six-Foot Sickbed on A Year and a Half: “When Master Chōmin wrote A Year and a Half, he seems to have made his peace with the question of life and death, but I think he did not reach the realm of actually enjoying his appointed fate. [auto-translated]”
A Six-Foot Sickbed on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: “Around this time last year I read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin as a daily task. The small foreign print was hard going, so I read three pages and stopped, five pages and stopped, struggling through, but the pleasure I got from it was immense. [auto-translated]”
A Six-Foot Sickbed on Hasshōjin: “Shihōta says he is a devoted reader of Hasshōjin, which suits my own heart very well. It is rare to find worship of Rijō in a world that prizes only love stories. [auto-translated]”