寒山拾得森鴎外

Part 4 of 5 · JLPT N2

寒山拾得 Kanzanshūtoku, part 4: Tigers, Empty Rooms and a Foundling

by Mori Ōgai · 1,329 characters · from The Governor Goes Looking for Sages

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At Kokuseiji, the monk Dōgyō tells Ryo that Bukan used to hull rice for the monks and once rode back from the mountain on a tiger. Ryo visits Bukan's empty quarters and is frightened when the wind stirs the leaves. As Dōgyō leads him to the kitchen, he explains that Jittoku is a foundling Bukan brought home and that Kanzan comes from a nearby cave to collect leftover food.

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道翹どうぎょうが答こたえた。Dōgyō answered.

「豊干ぶかんとおっしゃいますか。それはさきころまで、本堂ほんどうの背後うしろの僧院そういんにおられましたが、行脚あんぎゃに出でられたきり、帰かえられませぬ」"Bukan, you say? Until recently he lived in the quarters behind the main hall, but he went off on a pilgrimage and has not come back."

「当寺とうじではどういうことをしておられましたか」"And what did he do here at this temple?"

「さようでございます。僧そうどもの食たべる米こめを舂ついておられました」"Let me see. He used to hull the rice that we monks eat."

「はあ。そして何なんかほかの僧そうたちと変かわったことはなかったのですか」"I see. And was there nothing about him that set him apart from the other monks?"

「いえ。それがございましたので、初はじめただ骨惜ほねおしみをしない、親切しんせつな同宿どうしゅくだと存ぞんじていました豊干ぶかんさんを、わたくしどもが大切たいせつにいたすようになりました。するとある日ひふいと出でて行いってしまわれました」"Oh, there was. That is why we came to treat Bukan with great respect, though at first we had thought of him only as a kind fellow monk who never spared himself any effort. Then one day he simply walked off, quite without warning."

「それはどういうことがあったのですか」"And what happened, exactly?"

「全まったく不思議ふしぎなことでございました。ある日ひ山やまから虎とらに騎のって帰かえって参まいられたのでございます。そしてそのまま廊下ろうかへはいって、虎とらの背せで詩しを吟ぎんじて歩あるかれました。一体いったい詩しを吟ぎんずることの好すきな人ひとで、裏うらの僧院そういんでも、夜よるになると詩しを吟ぎんぜられました」"It was a truly strange thing. One day he came back from the mountain riding on a tiger. He went straight into the corridor that way and moved along it on the tiger's back, chanting poems. He had always been fond of chanting poetry, and in the quarters at the back, too, he would chant poems once night fell."

「はあ。活いきた阿羅漢あらかんですな。その僧院そういんの址あとはどうなっていますか」"I see. A living arhat, then. And what has become of the place where his quarters were?"

「只今ただいまもあき家やになっておりますが、折おり折おり夜よるになると、虎とらが参まいって吼ほえております」"Even now it stands empty, but every so often, at night, a tiger comes and roars there."

「そんならご苦労くろうながら、そこへご案内あんないを願ねがいましょう」こう言いって、閭りょは座ざを起たった。"In that case, if it is not too much trouble, I should like you to take me there." With these words, Ryo rose from his seat.

道翹どうぎょうは蛛くもの網いを払はらいつつ先さきに立たって、閭りょを豊干ぶかんのいたあき家やに連つれて行いった。Dōgyō went ahead, brushing away cobwebs as he walked, and led Ryo to the empty quarters where Bukan had lived.

日ひがもう暮くれかかったので、薄暗うすぐらい屋内おくないを見廻みまわすに、がらんとして何一なにひとつない。The sun was already beginning to set, and when Ryo looked around the dim interior, the room was bare, with nothing at all in it.

道翹どうぎょうは身みをかがめて石畳いしだたみの上うえの虎とらの足跡あしあとを指ゆびさした。Dōgyō bent down and pointed to the tiger's footprints on the paving stones.

たまたま山風やまかぜが窓まどの外そとを吹ふいて通かよって、うずたかい庭にわの落おち葉ばを捲まき上あげた。Just then a mountain wind blew past outside the window and swept up the fallen leaves heaped high in the garden.

その音おとが寂寞せきばくを破やぶってざわざわと鳴なると、閭りょは髪かみの毛けの根ねを締しめつけられるように感かんじて、全身ぜんしんの肌はだに粟あわを生しょうじた。When their rustling broke the silence, Ryo felt as if the roots of his hair were being pulled tight, and gooseflesh rose all over his body.

閭りょは忙せわしげにあき家やを出でた。Ryo hurried out of the empty quarters.

そしてあとからついて来くる道翹どうぎょうに言いった。Then he spoke to Dōgyō, who was following behind him.

「拾得じっとくという僧そうはまだ当寺とうじにおられますか」"Is the monk called Jittoku still at this temple?"

道翹どうぎょうは不審ふしんらしく閭りょの顏かおを見みた。Dōgyō looked at Ryo's face with a puzzled air.

「よくご存ぞんじでございます。先刻せんこくあちらの厨くりやで、寒山かんざんと申もうすものと火ひに当あたっておりましたから、ご用ようがおありなさるなら、呼よび寄よせましょうか」"You are very well informed, sir. A little while ago he was warming himself by the fire in the kitchen over there with someone called Kanzan. If you have business with him, shall I call him here?"

「ははあ。寒山かんざんも来きておられますか。それは願ねがってもないことです。どうぞご苦労くろうついでに厨くりやにご案内あんないを願ねがいましょう」"Well, well. Kanzan is here as well? Nothing could suit me better. Since I am already putting you to trouble, please take me to the kitchen too."

「承知しょうちいたしました」と言いって、道翹どうぎょうは本堂ほんどうについて西にしへ歩あるいて行いく。"Certainly, sir," said Dōgyō, and he walked west along the main hall.

閭りょが背後うしろから問とうた。Ryo asked from behind him.

「拾得じっとくさんはいつごろから当寺とうじにおられますか」"Since when has Jittoku been at this temple?"

「もうよほど久ひさしいことでございます。あれは豊干ぶかんさんが松林まつばやしの中なかから拾ひろって帰かえられた捨すて子ごでございます」"For a very long time now. He is a foundling that Bukan picked up in a pine wood and brought back here."

「はあ。そして当寺とうじでは何なんをしておられますか」"I see. And what does he do here at the temple?"

「拾ひろわれて参まいってから三さん年ねんほど立たちましたとき、食堂じきどうで上座じょうざの像ぞうに香こうを上あげたり、燈明とうみょうを上あげたり、そのほか供そなえものをさせたりいたしましたそうでございます。"I am told that about three years after he was taken in, he was set to offering incense and lamps to the statue of the Elder in the dining hall, and to making other offerings as well.

そのうちある日ひ上座じょうざの像ぞうに食事しょくじを供そなえておいて、自分じぶんが向むき合あって一いっしょに食たべているのを見みつけられましたそうでございます。Then one day, I am told, he was found sitting face to face with the statue of the Elder, eating together with it after he had set a meal before it.

賓頭盧尊者びんずるそんじゃの像ぞうがどれだけ尊とうといものか存ぞんぜずにいたしたことと見みえます。唯今ただいまでは厨くりやで僧そうどもの食器しょっきを洗あらわせております」It seems he did it without knowing how sacred the statue of the Venerable Binzuru is. Now we have him washing the monks' dishes in the kitchen."

「はあ」と言いって、閭りょは二足ふたあし三足みあし歩あるいてから問とうた。"I see," said Ryo, and after walking two or three steps he asked:

「それから唯今ただいま寒山かんざんとおっしゃったが、それはどういう方かたですか」"And the Kanzan you mentioned just now, what sort of person is he?"

「寒山かんざんでございますか。これは当寺とうじから西にしの方ほうの寒巌かんがんと申もうす石窟せっくつに住すんでおりますものでございます。拾得じっとくが食器しょっきを滌あらいますとき、残のこっている飯めしや菜なを竹たけの筒つつに入いれて取とっておきますと、寒山かんざんはそれをもらいに参まいるのでございます」"Kanzan, sir? He is someone who lives in a stone cave called Kangan, to the west of this temple. When Jittoku washes the dishes, he puts the leftover rice and vegetables into a bamboo tube and keeps them aside, and Kanzan comes to collect them."

Vocabulary

WordMeaningJLPT
行脚あんぎゃa monk's pilgrimage or wandering journey on footHere 行 is read あん, a Buddhist reading also found in 行灯 (あんどん).—
舂いてつくto pound or hull grain in a mortardictionary form: 舂くA rare kanji. In modern writing this is usually 搗く or simply つく.—
骨惜しみほねおしみsparing oneself effort; shirking workOften used in the negative: 骨惜しみをしない means hard-working.—
同宿どうしゅくfellow resident; a monk living in the same temple—
ふいとふいとsuddenly, without warningA slightly old-fashioned form of ふと.—
吟じてぎんずるto chant or recite (poetry)dictionary form: 吟ずるA literary verb. 吟ぜられ is its honorific passive form.—
阿羅漢あらかんarhat; a saint who has reached enlightenmentA Buddhist term from Sanskrit. It is often shortened to 羅漢.—
蛛の網くものいcobwebdictionary form: 蜘蛛の網An old reading of 網 (い). The modern word is 蜘蛛の巣 (くものす).—
がらんとしてがらんとempty and bare (of a room or building)dictionary form: がらんと—
うずたかいうずたかいpiled high, heaped upWritten 堆い in kanji.—
寂寞せきばくsilence, desolate stillnessA literary word.—
粟あわmillet; here, gooseflesh肌に粟を生じる means 'to get goose bumps'. Compare the modern idiom 鳥肌が立つ.—
厨くりやkitchen (of a temple or large house)An old-fashioned word. The modern equivalent is 台所.—
捨て子すてごfoundling, abandoned childRendaku turns こ into ご. The name 拾得 means 'picked up'.—

Grammar

〜たきり N2 after doing ~, never again; ~ and that was the last

Verb in the た-form + きり describes an action after which the expected follow-up never happened. Here Bukan left on a pilgrimage and has not returned since.

行脚に出られたきり、帰られませぬ

he went off on a pilgrimage and has not come back

〜ませぬ N1 archaic polite negative (= 〜ません)

ぬ is the classical negative auxiliary. Attached to ます, it gives a formal, old-fashioned tone that suits the monk's humble speech.

帰られませぬ

he has not come back

ご苦労ながら N2 sorry to trouble you, but ~

ながら here is concessive ('although'). ご苦労ながら politely acknowledges that one is putting the listener to trouble before making a request. In 22, ご苦労ついでに ('while you are at it') works in a similar way.

そんならご苦労ながら、そこへご案内を願いましょう

In that case, if it is not too much trouble, I should like you to take me there.

〜ように感じる N3 to feel as if ~

ように after a clause describes a likeness rather than a fact. Here it conveys the sensation of the hair roots being squeezed tight.

閭は髪の毛の根を締めつけられるように感じて

Ryo felt as if the roots of his hair were being pulled tight

〜そうでございます (hearsay) N4 I hear that ~; it is said that ~

I hear that ~; it is said that ~. Hearsay そうだ normally follows the plain form. Here Dōgyō puts it after the polite 〜ました (いたしましたそうでございます) and uses でございます, the very polite form of だ. This makes his report of second-hand information very formal and humble.

そのほか供えものをさせたりいたしましたそうでございます

I am told that he was set to making other offerings as well

〜と見えます N2 it seems that ~; apparently ~

と見える marks an inference drawn from what one has observed. Dōgyō uses it to guess at Jittoku's reasons for eating with the statue.

存ぜずにいたしたことと見えます

It seems he did it without knowing