Ｋの生れた家も相應に暮らしてゐたのです。然し次男を東京へ修業に出す程の餘力があつたか何うか知りません。又修業に出られる便宜があるので、養子の相談が纏まつたものか何うか、其所も私には分りません。兎に角Ｋは醫者の家へ養子に行つたのです。それは私達がまだ中學にゐる時の事でした。私は教場で先生が名簿を呼ぶ時に、Ｋの姓が急に變つてゐたので驚ろいたのを今でも記憶してゐます。
translation
The house where K was born also lived there. However, I don't know if I had the strength to send my second son to Tokyo for training. I also have the convenience of being able to attend training, so I don't know if the consultation for the adopted son has been finalized or not. Kaku went to a doctor's house to be adopted. It was when we were still in junior high school. I still remember being surprised at the sudden change in K's surname when the teacher called the list of students in the classroom.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- | 生: pure (き), undiluted, raw, crude, raw (なま) | 家: house (いえ), residence, dwelling, family, household | 暮: sunset (くれ), sundown, nightfall, dusk, end |
| 次男: second son (じなん) | 東京: Tokyo (とうきょう), Tokyo (とうけい) | 修業: pursuit of knowledge (しゅうぎょう), pursuit of knowledge (しゅぎょう), studying, studying, learning | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) |
| 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 知: wisdom (ち), jnana (higher knowledge) | 修業: pursuit of knowledge (しゅうぎょう), pursuit of knowledge (しゅぎょう), studying, studying, learning | 便宜: convenience (びんぎ), convenience (べんぎ), accommodation, accommodation, advantage |
| 相談: consultation (そうだん), discussion, discussing, asking (someone) for advice | 纏: battle standard decorated with hanging strips of paper or leather (まとい), fireman’s standard (Edo period) | 其所: there (place relatively near listener) (そこ), there (place just mentioned), that place, then (of some incident just spoken of), that (of point just raised) | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) |
| 兎: rabbit (う), rabbit (うさぎ), rabbit (ウサギ), hare, hare | 醫者: doctor (いしゃ), physician | 行: line (of text) (ぎょう), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations) | 私達: we (わたくしたち), we (わたしたち), us, us |
| 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 教場: classroom (きょうじょう) | 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 名簿: register of names (めいぼ), list of names, roll, register, roster |
| 急: sudden (きゅう), abrupt, unexpected, urgent, pressing | 變: strange (へん), odd, peculiar, weird, curious | 今: now (いま), the present time, just now, soon, immediately | 記憶: memory (きおく), recollection, remembrance, memory, storage |