母は父のために箒で脊中をどやされた時の事などを話した。今迄何遍もそれを聞かされた私と兄は、何時もとは丸で違つた氣分で、母の言葉を父の記念のやうに耳へ受け入れた。
translation
My mother talked about the time when my back was slapped with a broom for my father. My brother and I, who had heard this many times before, listened to my mother's words with a completely different mood than usual, as if it were a memorial to my father.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 母: mother (あも), mother (いろは), mother (おも), mother (かか), mother (はは) | 父: father (あて), father (かそ), father (かぞ), father (しし), father (ちち) | 箒: broom (ほうき) | 時: time (とき), hour, moment, occasion, case |
| 話: talk (はなし), speech, chat, conversation, topic | 今迄: until now (いままで), so far, up to the present | 何遍: how many times (なんべん), how often | 何遍: how many times (なんべん), how often |
| 兄: older brother (あに), elder brother, you (けい), Mr, Mister | 何時: when (いつ), at what time, how soon, normal times, ordinary days | 丸: circle (まる), circle (マル), entirety, entirety, whole | 言葉: language (けとば), language (ことば), dialect, dialect, word |
| 耳: ear (みみ), hearing, ear (for music, etc.), edge, crust | 受: vedana (sensation) (じゅ) | 入: entering (いり), setting (of the Sun), containing, content, audience |