我々は眞黒になつて東京へ歸りました。歸つた時は私の氣分が又變つてゐました。人間らしいとか、人間らしくないとかいふ小理窟は殆んど頭の中に殘つてゐませんでした。Ｋにも宗教家らしい樣子が全く見えなくなりました。恐らく彼の心のどこにも靈がどうの肉がどうのといふ問題は、其時宿つてゐなかつたでせう。二人は異人種のやうな顏をして、忙がしさうに見える東京をぐる／＼眺めました。それから兩國へ來て、暑いのに軍鶏を食ひました。Ｋは其勢で小石川迄歩いて歸らうと云ふのです。體力から云へばＫよりも私の方が強いのですから、私はすぐ應じました。
translation
We turned black and returned to Tokyo. When I returned, my mood had changed again. Hardly any trivialities about what was human or what was not human remained in my mind. In K, too, I could no longer see anything that seemed to be a religious person. Perhaps, at that time, the question of what about spirits and what about meat did not dwell anywhere in his mind. The two of them, with mixed-race faces, looked around the busy-looking Tokyo. After that, we came to both countries and ate shamo even though it was hot. K said he would walk back to Koishikawa. Physically speaking, I am stronger than K, so I responded immediately.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 我々: we (われわれ) | 東京: Tokyo (とうきょう), Tokyo (とうけい) | 時: time (とき), hour, moment, occasion, case | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) |
| 小理窟: quibble (こりくつ), pointless argument | 殆: quite (ほとほと), utterly, really, completely | 頭: counter for large animals (e.g. head of cattle) (とう), counter for insects in a collection, counter for helmets, masks, etc., head (あたま), head (かしら) | 中: inside (なか), interior, among, within, middle |
| 宗教家: religious leader (しゅうきょうか), person of religion, religious figure, religionist | 全: all (ぜん), whole, entire, complete, total | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 恐: frightening (こわ), terrifying, yours sincerely (かしく), yours sincerely (かしこ), respectfully yours |
| 心: mind (こころ), heart, spirit, the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.), heart (しん) | 肉: flesh (にく), meat, flesh (of a fruit), pulp, the physical body (as opposed to the spirit) | 問題: question (e.g. on a test) (もんだい), problem, problem (e.g. societal, political), question, issue | 二人: two persons (ににん), two persons (ふたり), two people, two people, pair |
| 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look | 暑: heat (しょ), midsummer | 軍鶏: game fowl (ぐんけい), game fowl (しゃも), game fowl (シャモ), gamecock, gamecock | 食: food (し), food (しょく), food (じき), foodstuff, foodstuff |
| 方: direction (かた), way, person, lady, gentleman | 強: a little over (きょう), a little more than, strength, the strong, powerhouse |