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Every summer my cousins and I scrape salt off the rocks in Molokai. This has become a tradition with my grandfather. He taught us how to look for the right salt and the best ponds to gather the salt. This picture is my grandfather and my cousin looking for salt on the reef, in the tidepools. We hiked over 2 miles to get to these tide pools, and we each packed over 100 lbs of salt in our back packs back to our truck. It is a very difficult hike with many rocks to climb. It took us a full day. At the end of the day my back was tired and I had sunburn all over my neck and arms. Next time I need to remember to bring a long sleeved shirt. I look forward to these adventures with my grandfather every year.

Yesterday I met a man from Japan. He came to Hawaii for work and brought his wife and two children with him. The children go to high school but it is hard because they do not speak English. The wife will stay at home and plans to spend time arranging the house. They showed me the Iphone application Google Translate and said it helps them a lot to survive in America. I was glad that despite the difficulty of moving to a new place they still like it here. They said life in Japan is always busy but here in Hawaii they can relax and forget about their worries.

We took a family trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania last weekend.  The city has very rich history.  It was in Independence Hall right there in Philadelphia where America’s Declaration of Independence from England was signed and where the details of the U.S. Constitution were worked out.  We learned that Philadelphia also served as the nation’s capital at one point.  We saw the Liberty Bell too with it’s crack and all as well as where Benjamin Franklin was buried.  We ate the famous Philly cheesesteak.  It was nothing more than meat, onions, and cheese on a long piece of white bread, but it was delicious.  As a bonus, we also had the chance to see the Rocky statue and climbed the stairs of the Philadelphia Art Museum where Rocky ran up, pumped his arms in the air, and shouted the famous “Adrian.”  We didn’t do the Rocky pose, but many people around us did.  It was funny to see.

When my brother got married he chose me as his best man. I was honored. But, I was also intending on getting ridiculously drunk at the reception. There was one problem though. I didn’t eat all day. And the problem with that is, I can only do one or the other, not both at the same time. So, when the food was served I scarfed it all down and got seconds. When I had two beers I became bloated and ended up spending most of the reception outside walking laps around the parking lot. 😦

先の「和歌の漢訳」の欄で「かかりことば」との語を書きましたが、あれは枕詞と掛詞がごっちゃになった結果で、私の浅学さが吐露されお恥ずかしい限りです。きちんと広辞苑をひいてみました。

「枕詞」修辞法のひとつ。特定の語の上にかかって修飾または口調を整えるのに用いる言葉。例「あしひきの」「ひさかたの」「しらぬいの」等。あしひきは「山」に、ひさかたは「天、空、日、月、雲」等に、しらぬいは「筑紫」にかかる。

「掛詞」同音異義を利用して一語に２つ以上の意味を持たせたもの。例「まつ」松と待つ。「秋の野に人まつ虫の声すなり」

とありますから、安倍仲麿の和歌の出だしの語「天の原」は「枕詞」でも「掛詞」でもないことになります。それでも漢訳されると「天の原」の語は消えてしまったことは事実で、私の言いたかった事はそのことです。

About 3 days after I arrived in Florianopolis, when my mom, my sister, and I were still staying in a hotel, I plugged in my Xbox 360 and my Gaems G155 (a portable xbox 360, tv, and case I got for my birthday). And I wasn’t aware that the voltage here in Southern Brazil is 220v instead of the 110v in Rio (same as in the U.S.), and once I turned my Xbox on, it ran for about a minute and then we heard a pop. I didn’t realize that it came from the Xbox until I noticed that it had turned off. So I tried to turn it back on but nothing happened, so next I picked up the power brick (part of the cable) and sure enough, it smelled like when you fire a cap gun. I was glad there was nothing wrong with the actual Xbox but then I had to buy replacements. A couple days later, we went to the center of Florianopolis and found out that we had to buy a ginormous transformer but they said that they could replace the fuse in the power brick instead of buying a whole new one, so we did that.
So now I am living happily again with my Xbox 360. But I think that the 220v thing is kind of stupid and I still don’t know why they have it like that, and they should have in at 110v because i’m pretty sure that 220v uses more power.

漢文や漢詩の和訳あるいは和風読みはしばしば眼にします。眼にするどころか、高校時代の漢文の授業では多い鍛えられたものですが、和歌の漢訳なるものを今回はじめて知りました。遣唐使の一人安倍仲麿の詠んだ和歌が漢訳されて、現在の西安（かっての長安）の中心にある公園に建つ仲麿公の記念碑に刻まれているとのことです。

その和歌とは百人一首でもおなじみの
『天の原ふりさけみれば春日なる三笠の山にいでし月かも』

記念碑に刻まれている漢訳は
『翹首望東天　神馳奈良辺　三笠山頂上　想又皎月円』

それを更に和訳すると

『首（こうべ）を翹げて（あげて）東天（とうてん）を望む
神（こころ）は馳す（はす）
三笠　山頂の上
又、皎月（こうげつ）の円（まどか）なるを想う』

元となった和歌とその漢訳を和風読みにしたものを比較して直ぐにわかるのは、漢訳には『天の原』の語句がない事です。つまり、和歌を詠む上で大切な約束事であるかかりことばは和歌が日本語以外の言語に訳されると消えてしまうということですね。