...Tsune naran ' Ui no oku-yama KIJO koete., Asuki yume mishi, Ei mo sezu. Which is, being interpreted : " Though their hues are gay, the blossoms flutter down,...who may continue forever ? Having to-day crossed the mountain-fastness of existence, I have seen but a fleeting dream, with which I am not intoxicated."...

...nar<m ! I'i no oJiU-yama Ki/o koete, Asald ywne mishi, Ei wo sezu. Which is, being interpreted : " Though their hues are gay, the blossoms flutter down,...who may continue forever ? Having to-day crossed the mountain-fastness of existence, I have seen but a fleeting dream, with which I am not intoxicated."...

...This alphabet forms in itself a poem which interpreted by Mr. Basil Hall Chamberlain runs thus : — " Though their hues are gay, the blossoms flutter down,...so in this world of ours who may continue forever ? Ha,viug today crossed _ * ^ ,. ni ho he to r J 7 jtr ru (w)o wa ka y •y * *• so tBU ne na the...

...yumf mishi, El mo sem : "— which means, according to Prof. Chamberlain's liberal paraphrase ; — " Though their hues are gay, the blossoms flutter down, and so in this world of on ra who may continue forever? Having to-day crossed the mountain-fastness of existence, I have seen...

...t>L& ii tt^ <• Iro wa nioedo, Chirimj.ru, wo, — Waga yo tare zo Tsune naran ? Sono honyaku wa, " Though their hues are gay, the blossoms flutter down, and so in this world of ours icJu) rn'iy continue forever" to iu no desu. 1L — He says, it is of Buddhist origin, founded on one...