Old Japanese Songs 



My next selection is from a love -song of un 

 certain date, belonging to the Kamakura period 

 (1186-1332). This fragment is chiefly remark 

 able for its Buddhist allusions, and for its very 

 regular form of stanza : 



Makoto yara, 

 Kashima no minato ni 

 Miroku no mifune ga 

 Tsuite gozarimosu. 



Yono I 



Sd iyoe, iyoe ! 

 Sd iyoe, iyoe! 



Hobashira wa, 

 Kogane no hobashira ; 

 Ho niwa Hokkekyo no 

 Go no man-makimono. 



Sa iyoe, iyoe ! 



Sd iyoe, iyoe I 



I know not if 't is true 



That to the port of Kashima 



The august ship of Miroku 1 has come I 



Yono! 



Sa iyo'i, iyo'i ! 

 Saiyo'6, iyo'il 



1 Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva) is the next great Buddha 

 to come. 



