Shunshoku Umegoyomi Vol. 1: A Fleeting Existence

Fig. 1: 今日ま
じやア我慢して
居たけれど。

Fig. 2: おま
はんの宅は
知れるし。

A quick post today, continuing our story of Yonehachi and Tanjirou's conversation from last time:

"Until today, I had been patient, but (fig. 1) [now] I know where you live as well (fig. 2), and so...," [Yonehachi said], looking around the neighborhood as tears spilled into her lap (fig. 3).

In fig. 1, we see the expression 「まじや」 (pronounced 「まじゃ」), which is just a dialectical contraction of 「までは」, as seen in modern Japanese.

Fig. 3: そして
マアトあたりを
みまはしなみだを
ひざにこぼしながら

In fig. 3, note how the 「ながら」 portion at the end is separated from the rest of the text; it is on a new line in the original text.

Fig. 4: 此様
なはかない
形身になつ
てゐさつし
やるのを見て

"Seeing [you] in this fleeting state [of existence], so weak and fragile (fig. 4), why do [I wonder] if you will even be in this house tomorrow?" (fig. 5)

In fig. 4, we see the same kanji pattern for 「こんな」 as seen in fig. 3 of this post.

I had difficulty parsing 「形丸」, as it doesn't show up in any of the dictionaries I've checked. The furigana 「なり」 can apply to just 「形」, but since the 「り」 is to the right of 「丸」, I assumed that this was an irregular reading, where 「なり」 applied to both kanji. This fits with the following kana「に」, which combines with 「なり」 to create the particle 「なりに」.

Edit: with the help of an anonymous commenter and Matt, I was able to clear this up. First of all, the kanji after 「形」 is actually 「身」. I'm not sure how I could have figured that out a priori, but it looks quite similar to some examples in online databases, such as this one. Also, there is an occurrence of this same kanji in another few lines, where it is clearly labeled as having the reading 「み」.

Fig. 5: どふ
してあすこ
の宅に居
られます
ものか。

The meaning of the word is the same as that of 「なり」: "state". One reason for using kanji was to more clearly delineate word beginnings/endings, so the reader wouldn't get lost in a sea of kana. But also, 「形身」, which has no meaning of its own (even in premodern Japanese), was possibly a kakikae of 「肩身」 (or perhaps just an orthographic error), which has the dual meanings of "body" and "image you present to society/strangers". Thus, there are three different meanings to this word, all of which contribute to the overall interpretation of the sentence, a literary technique that is reminiscent in some ways of the rhetorical device this blog is named after.

Finally, 「ゐさつしやる」 is read as 「いさっしゃる」, as explained for fig. 4 of this post.