愛犬（ダイズ 雄）の欠伸
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Today we passed through the most dangerous places in the
north country,known as"Parents Forget Their Children,""Children
Forget Their Parents.""Dogs Turn Back,"and"Horses Rsturn."
I was so exhausted that I drew my pillow to me and lay down as
soon as we reached an inn.I could hear the voices of young
women,probably two of them,talking in a room one removed
from ours at the front of the house.The voice of an old man also
took part in the conversation.I gathered from what they were say-
ing that the women were prostitutes from Niigata in Echigo
Provience.They were on their way to worship at the shrine in Ise,
and the man had escorted them here,as far as the Barrier of
Ichifuri.They would be sending him back the next day,and they
were giving him letters they had written and trivial little messages to take back with him.
＜一振＞
今日は親しらず・子しらず・犬もどり・駒返しなど云北国一の難所を
越てつかれ侍れば、枕引よせて寝たるに、一間隔て面の方に、若き女の
声二人計ときこゆ。年老たるおのこの声も交て物語するをきけば、越後
の国新潟と云所の遊女成し。伊勢参宮するとて、此関までおのこの送り
て、あすは古郷にかえす文したためて、はかなき言伝などしやる也。
素敵なお名前ですね！＼(^o^)／。