Japanese
よだかの星
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- 5,160
- Words
- 66
- Paragraphs
- 66
- Estimated time
- About 21 min
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よだかは、実にみにくい鳥です。 顔は、ところどころ、味噌をつけたようにまだらで、くちばしは、ひらたくて、耳までさけています。 足は、まるでよぼよぼで、一間とも歩けません。 ほかの鳥は、もう、よだかの顔を見ただけでも、いやになってしまうという工合でした。 たとえば、ひばりも、あまり美しい鳥ではありませんが、よだかよりは、ずっと上だと思っていましたので、夕方など、よだかにあうと、さもさもいやそうに、しんねりと目をつぶりながら、首をそっ方へ向けるのでした。もっとちいさなおしゃべりの鳥などは、いつでもよだかのまっこうから悪口をしました。 「ヘン。又出て来たね。まあ、あのざまをごらん。ほんとうに、鳥の仲間のつらよごしだよ。」 「ね、まあ、あのくちのおおきいことさ。きっと、かえるの親類か何かなんだよ。」 こんな調子です。…Work and source information
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- Text source
- Aozora Bunko work card (https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081/card473.html); source XHTML (https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081/files/473_42318.html)Open original source
- Public-domain evidence
- Miyazawa Kenji died on September 21, 1933. Copyright had expired in Japan before the 2018 term extension and was not revived; more than 70 years have also passed since the author's death in the Republic of Korea. Original Japanese text from Aozora Bunko; no translator.
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