Translation request: Kuroda-bushi

[muckefuck]

I took a stab at this and didn't get very far. Anyone know their way around 16th century Japanese?

古き都に来て見れば
浅茅が原とぞ　なりにける
月の光はくまなくて
秋風のみぞ　身にはしむ

Edit: Romaji for niemandsrose. (Syllables written in kanji are bolded.)

furuki miyakoni kite mireba,
Asajigaharatozo narinikeru,
tsuki no hikariwa kumanakute,
akikazenomizo miniwashimu

Further Edit:Well, I finally managed to track down a translation (no thanks to you bitches!). As it turns out, the poem appears in Chapter 5.2 of the Heike monogatari. Here it is in McCullough's (somewhat overadorned) translation:

When I came once more to the former capital
I could find only a desolate rush-wild plain
The light of the moon fills all of heaven and earth
The bitter winds of autumn pierce me to the bone

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

kumanakute

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Doumou arigato!

[pne.livejournal.com]

"Doumou arigatou" to iitai deshita ka?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

shiranai. ku daysin ey hankukmal lo malhayyo!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Um... naneun hangugmal aniyo. Eobseoyo.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Eobseoyo?

[pne.livejournal.com]

없어요. Meant to be the equivalent of Russian "нет" or Turkish "yok" -- "there is not".

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Aha! Eobsseoyo!

[pne.livejournal.com]

How do you make that out? There's only one sios (siot?) in there...

But then, my knowledge of Korean is fairly minimal, as you'll have seen.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Because Revised Romanisation (which I assume is the transcription you're using) is not a morphophonemic transcription nor a strict transliteration. Thus, results of predictable phonological processes like tensing of obstruents are shown explicitly.

In Yale, I would write /eps.e.yo/, which is a letter-for-letter transliteration of the corresponding Hankul, complete with division into camo. No need to note the tensing of the /s/ because it's completely predictable. However, in RR and McCune-Reischauer, this consonant would be written double.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Revised Romanisation (which I assume is the transcription you're using)

It's an attempt at McCune-Reischauer, though I believe Revised Romanisation is fairly similar.

I don't know the real rules for McC-R, though.

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

Dude! I got distracted by Kuroda Josui (1546-1604), aka "Don Simeon"!