東方妖々夢 ～the maximum moving about～
This just makes me want to play 12.3 and pwn with Youmu.
Anyway, I’ve been wanting to go back to some old Sekkenya for a while. As always it tends to defy English-ification, but I try. At any rate I think crafting a short story out of this song would be a good writing exercise :D I see demon blades and peasant girls and colorful bloodshed and cold flashes of steel and a phantasmagorical afterlife – you?
I really think I need to practice writing poetry and short stories of my own, hopefully it’d have a good influence on my translations – What do you think?
Either way I’m planning on participating in this years JLPP Translating Competition and also in NaNoWriMo. :3
Notes:
“Each Painting over Each other’s Flowing Mistakes” all I can imagine is “blood being used to paint over blood.”
“the One that will Kill her Hesitation” the word used is the same word used for a “Suicide Assistant” who would behead Samurai set to commit seppuku when they were unable to kill themselves.
As usual, I have to insert pronouns because there really are none – but with Youmu in mind we get ‘her’ and ‘she’.
歌詞↓
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東方妖々夢 ～the maximum moving about～
Touhou Youyoumu
原曲 東方妖々夢～Ancient Temple｜東方妖々夢
石鹸屋／東方不可拘束 ～the maximum moving about～
Event: Reitaisai 3
堅く 鋭く 妖しく 眩く 光放つ
冷たく 輝く 白い刃
Releasing Hard, Sharp, Bewitching, Blinding Light
A White Blade Flickers Coldly
誰が 誰もが 掴めば その手を血に染めて
悲しく 空しく 己を消した
Anyone, Anyone who Grasps that Blade will Stain their Hands with Blood and
Tragically, Emptily, Erase Themselves
それは 不器用で 一途な想いが成れの果て
それは 不器用な たった一つの誓い
That is, the Result of a Blind and Stumbling Love
That is, a Single Stumbling Vow
たとえ この身が 誰かの刃になろうと
たとえ この身が 命を奪えど
たとえ この身が 全てのモノを切り裂けど
この身 全てが 一振りの鋼
Even if this Body were to Become Another’s Blade
Even if this Body were to Take a Life
Even if this Body were to Slice and Shred Everything
All of Me would Be a Single Slash of Steel
強い 有り様 求めて 誰もが手を伸ばし
流れた 過ち 塗り潰して
Seeking Strength, Everyone Reached out Their Hands
Each Painting over Each other’s Flowing Mistakes
弱い 自分を 分からず 振り回し切り捨て
断たれる 命は 死に切れないで
Not Knowing her Weakness, she Sliced and Cut at all in her way
But when Cut Down herself, she Could Not Reach Death
いずれ 辿り着く 迷いが果てに連なる道
いずれ 巡り合う 迷いを断つ介錯
One Day she will Reach the Road Running at the End of Hesitation
One Day she will Meet the One that will Kill her Hesitation
せめて この手が 誰かの最期となるなら
せめて この手が 願いを掴めば
せめて この手が 砕けぬ刃になれれば
この手 一念 迷い解き放て
At Least if this Hand is to be Someone’s End
At Least if this Hand may Take Hold of one’s Wish
At Least if this Hand may be an Unbreakable Blade
This Hand will In an Instant Release itself from Hesitation
夢は 願いは 全てを鋼に刻んだ
深く 欠けない 曇り無き刃
いつか この身が 誰かを守る力なら
この身 一念 一振りの刃
With Dreams, Wishes, Everything, Engraved in Steel
A Deep, Flawless, Cloudless Blade
If this Body were to Become a Strength to Protect
I would Be a Determined Slash of a Blade
誰が 願いか
誰が 望みか
誰が 終わりか
誰が 生き様
For Someone’s Wishes?
For Someone’s Dreams?
For Someone’s End?
For Someone’s Existence
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kafka-fuura 