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第十節 Sec. 10

あらすじ・STORY
 万寿と母親の唐糸と、積もりに積もった会話の数々が続く。故郷や身の上の話に続き、唐糸は更科とも会話を交わした。万寿は、着物を売り払い、人目を盗んで母に尽くした。一方では、頼朝の身辺では、儀式の場に使われる獅子の間に畳の縁から小松が生え出るという異常が起こった。
 Manju and Karaito were continuing their conversation: changes in the hometown, life of their relatives, and then Karaito even changed a word with Sarashina. Thereafter, Manju sold her clothes and served her mother in a stealthy manner. During the meantime, there was a strange thing happened at Yoritomo's house. In the room where ceremonies took place, young pine trees sprang up from borders of a tatami mat.

 不可解な異常現象に惑う頼朝とかれの周辺、そしてそれへの対応。獅子の間にある畳の縁から小さな松が吹き出ている。小松の本数まで物語に記述されてはいるが、絵はそれにこだわっていない。これの吉凶を占うために呼び出されたのは、陰陽博士の安倍仲望。博士のまえには卜占の書や占いの道具である算木が広げられている。
 Yoritomo is puzzled by an abnormal phenomenon, and sought for an advice. In side of the Lion Hall, small pine tree branches grown from an edge of tatami mats. In the story, a clear number of the trees was told, but the picture did not carry it out in particular. The one invited to tell the fortune was Abe no Nakamochi, a master of Yin Yang astronomy. In front of him, a book of augury and a set of divining blocks were spread out.

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メモ・COMMENTS
 この節の大半は、唐糸と万寿、そして唐糸と更科との会話に費やしている。更科への褒め称え方には、主従の倫理の一面を語ったものとして注目すべきだろう。それを続く万寿の行動は、小袖を町に出てお金に変え、それをもって母を養うというものだった。これはまったく意表をついたもので、物語が読まれたころの生活環境を彷彿させて興味深い。
 The most part of this section was on the conversations between Karaito and Manju, and then with Sarashina. Karaito's words to praise Sarashina were unique, presents an example to understand the morality between a master and servants. Following that, Manju took an action to help her mother by selling her clothes. This was also unexpected, and brought to the contemporary readers a sense of social life in the time of the story.

Karaito Soshi, National Diet Library

唐糸草紙(国会図書館蔵)三十五ゥ Karaito Soshi, National Diet Library, 35b