室生犀星の詩「ふるさとは 遠きにありて おもうもの」は余りにもよく知られた詩である。最近ある新聞で室生犀星の記事を見つけ、図書館で数冊の図書を借りる。
今年の夏は酷暑の日が多く、外にも出られず、暇暇に筆者の心を捉えた詩を翻訳してみました。お暇の折どうぞ覗いてみてください。
*「室生」のヨミは、室生犀星記念館公式の表記にならい、
「むろお」「Muro」と させていただきます。
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旅上 On a Journey
室生犀星 Saisei Muro
旅にいづらば Being on a journey
はろばろと心うれしきもの My heart leaps so high
旅にいづらば Being on a journey
都のつかれ、めざめ行かむと I would be able to recover from
The fatigue of living in the metropolis
緑を見つむるごとく唯信ず Just like looking at the green.
I do believe it really
よしや趁(お)はれて旅すこころなりともせいBy any chance being chased, I’d be on a journey
知らぬ地上に印す I would leave my footprints
on a unknown earth
あらたなる草木とゆめと唯信ず I only believe in new grasses, trees, and and dream
神とけものと Moreover God and beasts
人間の道かぎりなければ If the road for human being were limitless
ただ深く信じていそぐなりけり Only believing it deeply
I would make haste
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
July 8, 2026
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小景異情 A Little Scene of Different Feelings
室生犀星 Saisei Muro
その一 Part 1
白魚はさびしや Ice goby looks very lonely
そのくろき瞳(め)はなんといふ How lovely its black pupils are!
なんといふしほらしさぞよ What lovely pupils they are!
そとにひる餉(げ)をしたたむる I am eating lunch outside
わがよそよしさと Being indifferent,(unconcerned)
かなしさと And sorrowful
ききともなやな雀しば啼けり I wouldn’t like to hear sparrows chatting
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
August 12, 2026
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その2 Part 2
ふるさとは 遠きにありて 思ふもの Hometown is what I think of,
while I am far from it
そして悲しく うたふもの And what I sing of it very sorrowfully
よしやうらぶれて 異土の乞食(かたゐ)と なるとても
Even if I should be down and out completely
And I should become a beggar in a unknown place
帰るところに あるまじや Hometown is not the place
Where I would come home
ひとり都の ゆふぐれに Being alone in a metropolis in the evening
ふるさとおもひ 涙ぐむ I would think of my hometown and
be moved to tears
そのこころもて With the sincere heart
遠きみやこに かへらばや I would like to come home
to the faraway metropolis
遠きみやこに かへらばや I would like to come home
to the faraway metropolis
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
July 10, 2026
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その四 Part 4
わが霊のなかより Out of my soul
緑もえいで Green has sprout out
なにごとしなけれど Though I have not done anything
懺悔(ざんげ)の涙せきあぐる T he tears of confession stream up
しづかに土を掘りいでて I only dig in the ground silently
ざんげの涙せきあぐる The tears of confession stream up
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
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その六 Part 6
あんずよ/花着け Apricot , open a lot of flowers please
地ぞ早やに輝やけ The face of the earth, glitter quickly please
あんずよ花着け Apricot, open a lot of flowers
あんずよ燃えよ Apricot, sprout like spring flowers
ああ あんずよ花着け Ah, Apricot , open a lot of flowers
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
August 28, 2026
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ふるさと My Hometown
雪あたたかくとけにけり Snow has melted, as it gets warm
しとしとしとと溶けにけり It has melted silently (drizzly)
ひとりつつしみふかく Being alone, with great decorum
やわらかく Softly
木の芽に息をふきかけり I breathe on the buds of the tree
もえよ 木の芽のうすみどりSprout up! Light green buds of the tree!
もえよ 木の芽のうすみどりSprout up! Light green buds of the tree!
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
August 28, 2026
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犀川 The River Sai-kawa
うつくしき川は流れたり A beautiful river flows through Kanazawa
そのほとりに我は住みぬ Near the river I had lived
春は春、なつはなつの In spring Spring flowers, in summer Summer flowers
花つける堤に座りて I sit down on the bank which shows us those flowers
こまやけき本のなさけと愛とを知りぬ Through my reading books
I’ve learned the mercy and love of books
いまもその川ながれ Even now the river flows as before
美しき微風ととも With the gentle breeze
蒼き波たたへたり The river brims over blue waves
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
August 27, 2026
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街にて On The Street of Metropolis
引き摺られ Drawn (dragged) away
息窒(いきつ)まりつつ Being stifled
きんきんと叫びを立て Shouting (Yelling) out, “Kin Kin Kin!”
さうらうとしてわれ歩む I keep walking staggering
しめやかに雨ふる街を眺め昂ぶり Watching proudly the street raining quietly
凍みたる手を温めんとして In order to warm up my icy cold hands
そうろうとしてわれ歩む I keep walking staggeringly
わが天鳶絨(びろーど)の服は泥をもて汚され My clothes of velvet
was stained with mud
わが靴はかなしげに鳴り My pair of shoes squeak sadly
れいらくの汚なき姿をうつす Those show the dirty figure of the wretched man
雨そそぐ都の街の上を On the street of Metropolis where
it rains hard
髪むしりつつ Tearing (rending) my hair
惨として我あゆむ I just walk so miserably
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
August 13, 2026
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みどりを拝む I Worship the Green
室生犀星 Saisei Muro
みどりを拝む I worship the green
つみかさなれる樹の果(はて)を拝む I worship the green heaped up
on the top of trees
さびしい下宿の窓から From the window of my desolate lodging house
のぼる町のけぶりと緑を拝む I worship the green and the rising smoke
From the chimney of the town
けふも安らかに暮れてゆくゆえ As today comes to an end peacefully, too
みどりを拝む I worship the green
翻訳:藤山 照夫 Translated by Teruo Fujiyama
「室生犀星詩集 室生犀星 自選」 (岩波書店) pp.56~57
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