それから二三日經つた後の事でしたらう、奥さんと御孃さんは朝から市ヶ谷にゐる親類の所へ行くと云つて宅を出ました。Ｋも私もまだ學校の始まらない頃でしたから、留守居同樣あとに殘つてゐました。私は書物を讀むのも散歩に出るのも厭だつたので、たゞ漠然と火鉢の縁に肱を載せて凝と顋を支へたなり考へてゐました。隣の室にゐるＫも一向音を立てませんでした。双方とも居るのだか居ないのだか分らない位靜でした。尤も斯ういふ事は、二人の間柄として別に珍らしくも何ともなかつたのですから、私は別段それを氣にも留めませんでした。
translation
A couple of days after that, my wife and daughter left home saying they were going to visit relatives in Ichigaya in the morning. Both K and I hadn't started school yet, so we were left together. I didn't like reading books or going for walks, so I just vaguely rested my elbows on the rim of the brazier, leaning my head against my head and thinking. K, who was in the next room, didn't make a sound either. It was so quiet that I didn't know whether they were there or not. Of course, such things were nothing unusual in their relationship, so I paid no particular attention to them.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 二三: two or three (にさん) | 二三日: 23rd day of the month (にじゅうさんにち), 23 days, two or three days (にさんにち) | 後: behind (あと), rear, after, later, remainder | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident |
| 朝: morning (あさ), breakfast, dynasty (ちょう), reign, period | 市: market (いち), fair, city (し) | 谷: valley (たに) | 親類: relative (しんるい), relation, kin |
| 行: line (of text) (ぎょう), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations) | 宅: house (たく), home, one’s house, one’s home, one’s husband | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- |
| 學校: school (がっこう) | 頃: (approximate) time (ころ), (approximate) time (ごろ), around, around, about | 留守: absence (るす), being away from home, house-sitting, house-sitter, being left unattended to (of one’s studies, etc.) | 留守居: house-sitting (るすい), house-sitter, caretaker (official post in the Edo period), keeper |
| 散歩: walk (さんぽ), stroll | 厭: disliking (いや), disliking (や), disliking (イヤ), not wanting, not wanting | 漠然: vague (ばくぜん), obscure, indistinct, hazy, ambiguous | 火鉢: brazier (ひばち), hibachi |
| 肱: elbow (ひじ), elbow (ヒジ), arm (esp. upper arm) (かいな), counter used to measure the thickness of round objects | 載: 10^44 (さい), hundred tredecillion | 凝: muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders) (こり), muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders) (しこり), lump (in tissue, esp. breast), lump (in tissue, esp. breast), swelling | 顋: jaw (あご), jaw (がく), jaw (アゴ), chin, chin |
| 考: thought (こう), report on one’s investigation into …, deceased father | 隣: next (to) (となり), adjoining, adjacent, house next door, neighbouring house | 室: room (しつ), wife (of someone of high rank), scabbard, Chinese “Encampment” constellation (one of the 28 mansions), greenhouse (むろ) | 一向: intently (ひたすら), single-mindedly, devotedly, solely, earnestly |
| 双方: both parties (そうほう), both sides | 居: residence (きょ), being (somewhere) (い), sitting | 分: minute (unit of time) (ふん), fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains), one-tenth (ぶ), one percent (one-tenth of a wari), 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun) | 尤: superb (ゆう), outstanding |
| 間柄: relationship (あいだがら), relation, terms (good, friendly, etc.) | 別: distinction (べち), distinction (べつ), difference, difference, discrimination | 珍: rare (ちん), strange, odd, peculiar, curious | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing |
| 氣: spirit (き), mind, heart, nature, disposition | 留: ruble (Russian currency) (ルーブリ), ruble (Russian currency) (ルーブル), rouble, rouble, stationary point (りゅう) |