「私が夏休みを利用して始めて國へ歸つた時、兩親の死に斷えた私の住居には、新らしい主人として、伯父夫婦が入れ代つて住んでゐました。是は私が東京へ出る前からの約束でした。たつた一人取り殘された私が家にゐない以上、左右でもするより外に仕方がなかつたのです。
translation
“When I returned to Japan for the first time during the summer vacation, my uncle and his wife were living in my new home after the death of my parents. It was a promise I had made before I left.Since I was the only one left and I was not home, I had no choice but to do things from side to side.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 利用: use (りよう), utilization, utilisation, application | 國: country (くに), state, region, national government, central government | 死: death (し), death (ﾀﾋ), decease, decease, (an) out |
| 新: new (しん), neo-, newness, novelty, Gregorian calendar | 主人: head (of a household) (しゅじん), proprietor (of a store), proprietress, landlord, landlady | 伯父: uncle (おじ), uncle (しゅくふ), uncle (はくふ), uncle (one’s father’s older brother) (えおじ) | 夫婦: married couple (ふうふ), husband and wife, man and wife, married couple (みょうと), married couple (めおと) |
| 入: entering (いり), setting (of the Sun), containing, content, audience | 代: substitution (しろ), material, price, margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.), area required for something | 住: dwelling (じゅう), living | 是: here (ここ), this place, this point, here, now |
| 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 前: point (さき), tip, end, nozzle, head (of a line) | 約束: promise (やくそく), agreement, arrangement, one’s word, contract | 一人: one person (いちにん), one person (ひとり), being alone, being alone, being by oneself |
| 家: house (いえ), residence, dwelling, family, household | 以上: not less than … (いじょう), … and over, … and above, … and upwards, … or more | 左右: left and right (さう), left and right (さゆう), left and right (そう), right and left, right and left | 左右: left and right (さう), left and right (さゆう), left and right (そう), right and left, right and left |
| 仕方: way (しかた), method, means, resource, course |