私はすぐ厭になりました。然しＫは好いとも惡いとも云ひません。少なくとも顏付丈は平氣なものでした。其癖彼は海に入るたんびに何處かに怪我をしない事はなかつたのです。私はとうとう彼を説き伏せて、其所から富浦に行きました。富浦から又那古に移りました。總て此沿岸は其時分から重に學生の集まる所でしたから、何處でも我々には丁度手頃の海水浴場だつたのです。Ｋと私は能く海岸の岩の上に坐つて、遠い海の色や、近い水の底を眺めました。岩の上から見下す水は、又特別に綺麗なものでした。赤い色だの藍の色だの、普通市場に上らないやうな色をした小魚が、透き通る波の中をあちらこちらと泳いでゐるのが鮮やかに指さゝれました。
translation
"I quickly got fed up with it." But K is neither good nor bad. At least the length of the face was normal. As a matter of fact, whenever he went into the sea, he was always injured. I finally persuaded him and left for Tomiura. Moved from Tomiura to Matanago. After all, this coast was a place where many students had gathered since that time, so any beach was just right for us. K and I sat comfortably on the coastal rocks and looked out at the color of the distant sea and the near bottom of the water. The water overlooking from the top of the rock was also particularly beautiful. I could clearly see small fish of red, indigo, and other colors that you wouldn't normally see in the market, swimming here and there in the clear waves.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 厭: disliking (いや), disliking (や), disliking (イヤ), not wanting, not wanting | 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) | Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- |
| 惡: evil (あく), wickedness, (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.), the bad guy | 少: small (しょう), little, few | 海: sea (うみ), sea (み), sea (わた), sea (わだ), ocean | 入: entering (いり), setting (of the Sun), containing, content, audience |
| 怪我: injury (けが), injury (ケガ), wound, wound, mistake | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 彼: that (あ), that (あれ), that (アレ), that thing, that thing | 説: theory (せつ), doctrine, opinion, view, rumour |
| 行: line (of text) (ぎょう), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations) | 沿岸: coast (えんがん), shore, littoral | 時分: time (じぶん), hour, season, time of the year | 重: chief (おも), main, principal, important, main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen) |
| 集: collection (しゅう), compilation | 所: place (とこ), place (ところ), spot, spot, scene | 我々: we (われわれ) | 丁度: exactly (ちょうど), precisely, just, right, opportunely |
| 手頃: handy (てごろ), convenient, suitable, reasonable, moderate | 海水浴場: swimming area (in the ocean) (かいすいよくじょう), swimming beach, seawater baths | 能: talent (のう), gift, function, noh (theatre) | 海岸: coast (かいがん), beach |
| 上: above (うえ), over, up, top, summit | 遠: distant (とお) | 色: colour (いろ), color, hue, tint, tinge | 水: water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water) (み), water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water) (みず), fluid (esp. in an animal tissue), fluid (esp. in an animal tissue), liquid |
| 特別: special (とくべつ), particular, extraordinary, exceptional, especial | 綺麗: pretty (きれい), pretty (キレイ), lovely, lovely, beautiful | 赤: red (あか), crimson, scarlet, red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange), Red (i.e. communist) | 藍: dyer’s knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye) (あい), dyer’s knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye) (アイ), indigo (dye), indigo (dye), indigo (colour) |
| 市場: (town) market (いちば), (street) market, marketplace, market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.) (しじょう), marketplace | 市場: (town) market (いちば), (street) market, marketplace, market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.) (しじょう), marketplace | 小魚: small fish (こざかな), fry, small fish (いさな), fry | 通: authority (つう), expert, connoisseur, well-informed person, counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc. |
| 中: inside (なか), interior, among, within, middle | 指: finger (おゆび), finger (および), finger (ゆび), toe, toe |