Friday, October 8, 2010







Original Japanese:

金木犀

先日三人は 昼ご飯を 食べに 行きました。 匂いがしました。 それは たま らなく嫌なにおいでした。

私は、 「あれ、 その匂い、 なんですか。」と 言いました。

友達は、 「あの花は 匂いが 強い。」と 言いました。

「本当ですか。 それは花の匂いなのですね」 と 私は言いました。

「ええ。 金木犀 です。」友達は 言いました。

私はびっくりしました。 

私たちは 近くの橙色の 花 を 見に 行きました。 

5年か6年間 私は その 匂いを 殺菌剤 (さっきんざい) だと思っていました。

私はその花の臭いを好きになることを望みます。

それは思い込みでした。なぜなら、私は そのにおいの元を見ようとはしなかったからです。

Translation into Japanese:

Sweet Olive Tree

The other day, three of us were walking to lunch. There was a smell. The smell was very unpleasant.
I asked, “What’s that smell?”

One of my friends said, “That’s the strong perfume of a flower.”

“Really? That’s a flower?”
“Yeah, it’s a sweet olive tree.”

We approached a nearby tree with small orange blossoms.

For five or six years I have thought that smell to be antiseptic provided by cities on flooding rivers in the autumn rains.

Now, I would like to learn to like that smell.

I had jumped to a conclusion that was wrong. I wondered why. I could smell something that I could not see. The flower is so strong that it permeates areas outside the visual boundary.

1 comment:

fuko said...

How beautiful your writings are...! I can't help leaving some coments here. Firstly, though, let me tell you something: my original reason to try to get contact with you is that I'd like to tell you about mini concert at Ichinan tomorrow. They're gonna throw a live at one thirty tomorrow. I guess I already said to you I started living around the university, so I can't go to check it. Music will be that of Bolivian folk. (my dad's favorite.) If you're interested in checking it out, you're welcome.
Well, since I just went to Zamami island of Okinawa in this summer vacation, I can agree to her feeling which she got when she were under water... That was just like a garden, yeah. I don't know about Guam, but Okinawa at the end of Sep to the begining to Oct was magnific because of the following reasons:reasonable price,few viriters and green turtles. (Actually I got some chance to enjoy swiming with those amazing animales!)
Good luck for your plans for future vacations. I can
tell you more about Zamami only if you want. I'm always near the school, so you're welcome. I've got many kinds of tea^^
Hope to see you soon!
Fuko Honda