三人は日本橋へ行つて買ひたいものを買ひました。買ふ間にも色々氣が變るので、思つたより暇がかゝりました。奥さんはわざ／＼私の名を呼んで何うだらうと相談をするのです。時々反物を御孃さんの肩から胸へ堅に宛てゝ置いて、私に二三歩退いて見て呉れろといふのです。私は其度ごとに、それは駄目だとか、それは能く似合ふとか、兎に角一人前の口を聞きました。
translation
The three went to Nihonbashi and bought what they wanted. It took me more time than I expected because my mind changed while I was shopping. Okusan deliberately calls my name and asks me what to do. Occasionally, he would place a piece of cloth firmly on the daughter's shoulder and chest, and tell me to take a few steps back and take a look. Each time, I would say that it was no good, that it would work well, and so on.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 三人: three people (さんにん), three people (みたり) | 日本: Japan (にっぽん), Japan (にほん) | 橋: bridge (はし), pons (pontes) (きょう), pons Varolii, pontine, part of the brain stem (links the medulla oblongata and cerebellum with the midbrain) | 行: line (of text) (ぎょう), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations) |
| 色々: various (いろいろ), all sorts of, variety of, various colors (colours) | 氣: spirit (き), mind, heart, nature, disposition | 變: strange (へん), odd, peculiar, weird, curious | 暇: spare time (いとま), spare time (ひま), spare time (ヒマ), free time, free time |
| 名: name (な), given name, title, fame, renown | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 相談: consultation (そうだん), discussion, discussing, asking (someone) for advice | 時々: sometimes (ときどき), occasionally, at times, from time to time, now and then |
| 反物: fabric (たんもの), cloth, textiles, drapery, dry-goods | 肩: shoulder (かた) | 胸: chest (むな), chest (むね), breast, breast, breasts | 堅: strength (けん), solidity, firmness, armour, armor |
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 二三: two or three (にさん) | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 呉: go (ご), soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk), Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze), Wu (kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era; 902-937 CE), Southern Wu |
| 能: talent (のう), gift, function, noh (theatre) | 兎: rabbit (う), rabbit (うさぎ), rabbit (ウサギ), hare, hare | 人前: portion of food (にんまえ), presence of other people (ひとまえ), (in) public, (in) front of others | 一人前: one portion (いちにんまえ), one portion (ひとりまえ), one serving, one serving, one person |