武士道 第15章 武士道の感化 目次
#1 THUS far we have brought into view only a few of the more prominent peaks which rise above the range of knightly virtues, in themselves so much more elevated than the general level of our national life . 今まで武士道の山の頂を見てきた。この章では裾野を見ていこう。 令和8年4月19日(公開)
#2 As the sun in its rising first tips the highest peaks with russet hue, and then gradually casts its rays on the valley below, so the ethical system which first enlightened the military order drew in course of time followers from amongst the masses. 武士道の光は登る朝日が山頂から平原を徐々に照らしていく様に世界を照らした 令和8年4月19日(公開)
#3 Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people. 民主主義は『人』を育て、貴族政治は『精神』を育てる 令和8年4月19日(限定公開)
#4 Virtues are no less contagious than vices. "There needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion," says Emerson. エマーソンは言う。美徳は悪徳と同じくらい伝染しやすい 令和8年4月19日(公開)
#5 No social class or caste can resist the diffusive power of moral influence. 道徳的な感化が浸透していく力に抗うことはできない 令和8年4月19日(限定公開)
#6 Prate as we may of the triumphant march of Anglo-Saxon liberty, rarely has it received impetus from the masses. アングロ・サクソン流の自由主義の凱旋行進とは・・・令和8年4月20日(公開)
#7 Was it not rather the work of the squires and gentlemen? 英国の自由の進歩などの歴史は 郷士やジェントルマンの仕業であった 令和8年4月21日(限定公開)
#8 Very truly does M. Taine say, "These three syllables, as used across the channel , summarise the history of English society. ドーバー海峡を越えたフランスで使われている 3音節 の言葉はイギリス社会の歴史を要約している 令和8年4月21日(公開)
#9 " Democracy may make self-confident retorts to such a statement and fling back the question — "When Adam delved and Eve span, where then was the gentleman?" When Adam delved and Eve span...アダムとイヴが労働しているのに、特権階級はどこにいたのか? 令和8年4月21日(公開)
#10 All the more pity that a gentleman was not present in Eden ! エデンに紳士がいなかったことは、惜しまれることだ. 令和8年4月22日(限定公開)
#11 The first parents missed him sorely and paid a high price for his absence. アダムとイブはgentlemanがいないことに対して高い代償を払った 令和8年4月22日(公開)
#12 Had he been there , not only would the garden have been more tastefully dressed, but they would have learned without painful experience that disobedience to Jehovah was disloyalty and dishonour, treason and rebellion . もしジェントルマンがエデンにいたなら. 令和8年4月23日(限定公開)
#13 What Japan was she owed to the samurai. 日本が武士(侍)に対して抱いていた恩義 令和8年4月23日(公開)
#14 They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well. Gentlemanは國民の花たるのみでなく、又その根であつた 令和8年4月23日(限定公開)
#15 All the gracious gifts of Heaven flowed through them. あらゆる天の善き賜物はGentleman等を通して流れ出た 令和8年4月23日(限定公開)
#16 Though they kept themselves socially aloof from the populace , they set a moral standard for them and guided them by their example. Gentlemanは身近な存在ではないが、尊敬されるべき手本であった 令和8年4月23日(限定公開)
#17 I admit Bushido had its esoteric and exoteric teachings ; these were eudemonic, looking after the welfare and happiness of the commonalty ; those were aretaic, emphasising the practice of virtues for their own sake . 武士道には奥義(秘教的教え)と表の教え(外教的教え)があった 令和8年4月25日(公開)
#18 In the most chivalrous days of Europe, knights formed numerically but a small fraction of the population, but, as Emerson says, — “In English literature half the drama and all the novels, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Walter Scott, paint this figure (gentleman)." イギリス文学の戯曲の半分とすべての小説が、この人物像(ジェントルマン)を描いている 令和8年4月25日(限定公開)
#19 Write in place of Sidney and Scott, Chikamatsu and Bakin, and you have in a nutshell the main features of the literary history of Japan. イギリス文学のシドニーやスコットの代わりに、近松や馬琴を当てはめてみれば、日本文学史の主要な特徴を端的に把握できるだろう 令和8年4月25日(公開)
#20 The innumerable avenues of popular amusement and instruction - the theatres, the story-tellers' booths, the preacher's dais, the musical recitations, the novels, — have taken for their chief theme the stories of the samurai. 演劇、講釋、說敎、淨瑠璃、小說等の如きは、その主題を武士譚に採るものなりき 令和8年4月26日(公開)
#21 The peasants around the open fire in their huts never tire of repeating the achievements of Yoshitsuné and his faithful retainer Benkéi, or of the two brave Soga brothers; 農夫は茅屋に爐火を圍んで義経と辨慶、また勇ましき曾我兄弟の物語を繰返して倦まず 令和8年4月26日(公開)
#22 the dusky urchins listen with gaping mouths until the last stick bums out and the fire dies in its embers, still leaving their hearts aglow with tale that is told. 黎面の 頑童 は茫然 口を開き、薪火 旣に盡くとも心頭 尙ほ 燃灼 す 令和8年4月26日(公開) 絵が上手く描けました
#23 The clerks and the shop boys, after their day's work is over and the amado of the store are closed, gather together to relate the story of Nobunaga and Hidéyoshi far into the night, until slumber overtakes their weary eyes and transports them from the drudgery of the counter to the exploits of the field. 帳場の骨の折れる仕事から戦場の手柄へと運び去るのである 令和8年4月26日(限定公開)
#24 The very babe just beginning to toddle is taught to lisp the adventures of Momotaro, the daring conqueror of ogreland. 細步蹣跚たる孩兒も、啞々として桃太郞鬼ケ島征伐 を誦する 令和8年4月26日(公開)
#25 Even girls are so imbued with the love of knightly deeds and virtues that, like Desdemona, they would seriously incline to devour with greedy ear the romance of the samurai. 女の子でさえデスデモナのように武士の冒険物語を貪欲な耳で聞きたいと心底思っていた. 令和8年4月26日(限定公開)

#26 The samurai grew to be the beau ideal of the whole race. 武士は全民族の善き理想となった 令和8年4月26日(限定公開)

#27 "As among flowers the cherry is queen, so among men the samurai is lord ,” so sang the populace. 花は櫻木、人は武士 令和8年4月27日(公開)
#28 Debarred from commercial pursuits , the military class itself did not aid commerce ; but there was no channel of human activity, no avenue of thought, which did not receive in some measure an impetus from Bushido. 全ての人間の活動、思考は武士道から影響を受けた. 令和8年4月27日(限定公開)

#29 Intellectual and moral Japan was directly or indirectly the work of Knighthood. 知識的, 道徳的な日本は、直接的, 間接的に、武士道の賜物であった 令和8年4月27日(限定公開)
#31 further, that historical progress is produced by a struggle "not among the community generally, to live, but a struggle amongst a small section of the community to lead, to direct, to employ, the majority in the best way. 歴史的進歩は少数のエリートが、大衆を最善の方法で導き、指導し生み出されるもの 令和8年4月29日(公開)
#32 " Whatever may be said about the soundness of his argument, these statements are amply verified in the part played by bushi in the social progress, so far as it went, of our Empire. 社会の進歩において武士によって果たされた役割で十分に実証されている 令和8年4月29日(公開)
#33 How the spirit of Bushido permeated all social classes is also shown in the development of a certain order of men, known as otoko-daté, the natural leaders of democracy. 男伊達(おとこだて)として知られるある種の男たちの発展・・・彼らは庶民の指導者であった 令和8年4月29日(公開)
#34 Staunch fellows were they , every inch of them strong with the strength of massive manhood. 彼等は剛毅の男子であつて、全身 豪快なる男兒の力を以て力強くあつた 令和8年4月29日(限定公開)
#35 At once the spokesmen and the guardians of popular rights, they had each a following of hundreds and thousands of souls who proffered, in the same fashion that samurai did to daimio , the willing service of "limb and life, of body, chattels, and earthly honour." 侠客たちは民衆の権利の代弁者にして守護者. その従者たちは全てを捧げた 令和8年4月29日(限定公開)
#36 Backed by a vast multitude of rash and impetuous working men , these born "bosses" formed a formidable check to the rampancy of the two-sworded order. 親分は、二本差階級の専横に對する恐るべき阻止力を構成した 令和8年4月29日(公開)
#37 In manifold ways has Bushido filtered down from the social class where it originated , and acted as leaven among the masses , furnishing a moral standard for the whole people . 武士道は日本社会に浸透して、パン種のように発芽して我が国の道徳基準となった 令和8年4月29日(限定公開)

#38 The Precepts of Knighthood, begun at first as the glory of the élite , became in time an aspiration and inspiration to the nation at large; 武士道の諸戒は、元はエリート層の栄光として始まったが、やがて国全体の理想となった 令和8年4月29日(限定公開)
#39 and though the populace could not attain the moral height of those loftier souls , yet Yamato Damashii, the Soul of Japan, ultimately came to express the Volksgeist of the Island Realm. 武士道は最終的にこの島国のフォルクス・ガイストとなった 令和8年4月29日(限定公開)

#40 If religion is no more than "Morality touched by emotion," as Matthew Arnold defines it , few ethical systems are better entitled to the rank of religion than Bushido. 武士道に勝りて宗教の列に加はるべき資格ある倫理體系は稀である 令和8年4月30日(公開)

#42 Yes, the sakura has for ages been the favourite of our people and the emblem of our character. 櫻は古來我が國民の愛花であり、我が國民性の表章であつた 令和8年5月10日(限定公開)
#43 Mark particularly the terms of definition which the poet uses , the words the wild cherry flower scenting the morning sun. 令和8年5月10日(限定公開)
#44 The Yamato spirit is not a tame, tender plant, but a wild — in the sense of natural — growth ; it is indigenous to the soil ; its accidental qualities it may share with the flowers of other lands, but in its essence it remains the original, spontaneous outgrowth of our clime. 大和魂は我が国の風土の独特で自発的な産物であり続ける 令和8年5月10日(公開)
#45 But its nativity is not its sole claim to our affection. 櫻はその國產たる事が、吾人の愛好を要求する唯一の理由ではない 令和8年5月10日(公開)
#46 The refinement and grace of its beauty appeal to our æsthetic sense as no other flower can . 大和魂の洗練された優雅な美しさは、他に類を見ないほど、私たちの美意識を魅了する 令和8年5月10日(限定公開)
#47 We cannot share the admiration of the Europeans for their roses, which lack the simplicity of our flower . 薔薇は桜の単純さを欠いでいる 令和8年5月10日(限定公開)
#49 her showy colours and heavy odours — all these are traits so unlike our flower, which carries no dagger or poison under its beauty , which is ever ready to depart life at the call of nature , whose colours are never gorgeous , and whose light fragrance never palls . 桜は美しさの下に刃も毒も隠さず, いつでも散る準備ができている 令和8年5月11日(公開)
#50 Beauty of colour and of form is limited in its showing ; it is a fixed quality of existence, whereas fragrance is volatile, ethereal as the breathing of life. 色と形は限定的で固定されたもの。 一方、香りは生命の息吹のように霊妙 令和8年5月11日(限定公開)
#51 So in all religious ceremonies frankincense and myrrh play a prominent part. すべての宗教儀式において、フランキンセンスとミルラは重要な役割を果たしている 令和8年5月12日(限定公開)
#52 There is something spirituelle in redolence. 香には霊的なる或る物がある 令和8年5月12日(限定公開)
#53 When the delicious perfume of the sakura quickens the morning air , as the sun in its course rises to illumine first the isles of the Far East , few sensations are more serenely exhilarating than to inhale , as it were , the very breath of beauteous day. 太陽がその軌道に沿って昇り、極東の島々を最初に照らし出す 令和8年5月12日(限定公開)

#54 When the Creator Himself is pictured as making new resolutions in His heart upon smelling a sweet savour (Gen. viii. 21) , is it any wonder that the sweet-smelling season of the cherry blossom should call forth the whole nation from their little habitations ? 桜の甘い香りが漂う季節に、国中の人が小さな家々から出てくる 令和8年5月12日(公開)
#55 Blame them not, if for a time their limbs forget their toil and moil and their hearts their pangs and sorrows . 束の間、彼らが苦労や骨折りを忘れ、悩みや悲しみを忘れるとしても、彼らを責めてはならない 令和8年5月12日(限定公開)

#56 Their brief pleasure ended , they return to their daily task with new strength and new resolutions. 束の間の楽しみが終わると、彼らは新たな力と新たな決意を持って、日々の仕事へと戻っていく 令和8年5月12日(公開)

#57 Thus in ways more than one is the sakura the flower of the nation. いづれにしても桜は我が国の花なのである 令和8年5月12日(限定公開)
#58. Is, then, this flower, so sweet and evanescent, blown whithersoever the wind listeth, and, shedding a puff of perfume, ready to vanish forever, is this flower the type of the Yamato-spirit ? 風の吹くままに舞い散りひと振りの香りを漂わせて永遠に消え去る 令和8年5月13日(公開)
#59 Is the soul of Japan so frailly mortal ? 日本の魂はかくも脆く消え易きものであるか 令和8年5月13日(公開)


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