kono tabi wa nusa mo toriaezu tamuke-yama momiji no nishiki kami no manimaniAt this time (or journey), I bring no streamers to the gods of the offering mountain but this brocade of autumn leaves.

Chūnichi Takahashi Shūhei, Daida Fukki ni Dai Kansei “Arigatai Desu”

anyogabrother's (Kagoshima dialect)

Sore kara kuruma o yatotte, chūgakkō e kitara, mō hōkago de dare mo inai.I then hired a rickshaw and arrived at the middle school, but school was already over and nobody was there.