向ふの方で凸凹の地面をならして新墓地を作つてゐる男が、鍬の手を休めて私達を見てゐた。私達は其所から左へ切れてすぐ街道へ出た。
translation
A man across the street who was leveling the uneven ground to build a new cemetery was looking at us from his hoe. From there we turned left and immediately came out onto the highway.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
方: direction (かた), way, person, lady, gentleman | 凸凹: unevenness (だくぼく), unevenness (でこぼこ), unevenness (とつおう), roughness, roughness | 地面: ground (じめん), earth’s surface, land, lot, plot | 墓地: cemetery (はかち), cemetery (ぼち), graveyard, graveyard |
男: man (おっこ), man (おとこ), male, male, fellow | 鍬: hoe (くわ) | 手: hand (て), arm, forepaw, foreleg, handle | 私達: we (わたくしたち), we (わたしたち), us, us |
其所: there (place relatively near listener) (そこ), there (place just mentioned), that place, then (of some incident just spoken of), that (of point just raised) | 左: left (ひだり), left hand side, left (esp. in vertical Japanese writing) (さ), the following | 切: eager (せつ), earnest, ardent, kind, keen | 街道: highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period) (かいどう), main road, highway (e.g. to success), path (to becoming …), subdistrict (in China) |