Τετάρτη 23 Φεβρουαρίου 2022

【Japanese Poem】"Ame Nimo Makezu" (朗読:雨ニモマケズ)



Kenji Miyazawa



 Not losing to the rain

Not losing to the wind

Not losing to the snow nor to heat in the summer

With having a strong body


Not fettered by desire

Never get angry

Always quietly smiling


Having 600g of brown rice

miso and some vegetables to eat in a day

In everything

Count yourself last and put others before you

Watching and listening, and understanding

and never forgetting


In the shade of the woods of the pines of the fields

being in a little thatched house


If there is a sick child to the east

Going and nursing over them

If there is a tired mother to the west

Going and shouldering her sheaf of rice

If there is someone near death to the south

Going and saying there's no need to be afraid

If there is a quarrel or a lawsuit to the north

Telling them to leave off with such waste


When there's drought, shedding tears of sympathy

When the summer's cold, wandering upset

Called a nobody by everyone


Without being praised

Without being blamed

Such a person

I want to become

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