「Ｋはあまり旅へ出ない男でした。私にも房州は始てでした。二人は何にも知らないで、船が一番先へ着いた所から上陸したのです。たしか保田とか云ひました。今では何んなに變つてゐるか知りませんが、其頃は非道い漁村でした。第一何處も彼處も腥さいのです。それから海へ入ると、波に押し倒されて、すぐ手だの足だのを擦り剥くのです。拳のやうな大きな石が打ち寄せる波に揉まれて、始終ごろ／＼してゐるのです。
translation
"K didn't travel much. It was my first time in Boshu. The two of us didn't know anything, and landed at the place where the ship arrived first. I think Yasuda. I don't know what has changed now, but in those days it was a wicked fishing village. I was rubbed by the fist-like stones of the waves that crashed against me, and I was constantly crouching.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- | 旅: travel (たび), trip, journey, 500-man battalion (Zhou dynasty Chinese army) (りょ) | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 男: man (おっこ), man (おとこ), male, male, fellow |
| 二人: two persons (ににん), two persons (ふたり), two people, two people, pair | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 知: wisdom (ち), jnana (higher knowledge) | 船: ship (ふね), boat, watercraft, vessel, seaplane |
| 先: a short while ago (さっき), a moment ago, just now, some time ago, point (さき) | 着: arrival (ちゃく), arriving at …, counter for items or suits of clothing, nth place (in a race), counter for moves | 所: place (とこ), place (ところ), spot, spot, scene | 上陸: landing (じょうりく), going ashore, disembarkation, making landfall (of a typhoon), striking land |
| 變: strange (へん), odd, peculiar, weird, curious | 非道: unjust (ひどう), inhuman | 漁村: fishing village (ぎょそん) | 第一: first (だいいち), foremost, number one, most important, best |
| 何處: where (いずく), where (いずこ), where (いづこ), where (いどこ), where (どこ) | 腥: something that smells of fish or blood (なまぐさ), meat and fish, degenerate monk, corrupt priest | 海: sea (うみ), sea (み), sea (わた), sea (わだ), ocean | 入: entering (いり), setting (of the Sun), containing, content, audience |
| 倒: reverse (さかしま), inversion, upside down, unreasonable, absurd | 手: hand (て), arm, forepaw, foreleg, handle | 足: foot (あし), paw, arm (of an octopus, squid, etc.), leg, gait | 拳: fist (こぶし), hand game (e.g. rock-paper-scissors) (けん) |
| 石: stone (いし), jewel, precious stone, flint (in a lighter), stone | 打: dozen (ダース), hitting a ball (with a bat, golf club, etc.) (だ), batting, stroke | 始終: continuously (しじゅう), from beginning to end, from first to last |