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美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま
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The beauty contest of the birds

(Aesop’s Fables)

Translation ちいさな翻訳屋さん

Make Origami ( ORIGAMI CLUB)
CrowCrow   PeacockPeacock   SwanSwan



Japanese ←→ Japanese & English ←→ English

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 It happened so long ago.

 One day God decided to hold the beauty contest of the birds,

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

and the winner shall be a king of all birds.

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

 All the birds fussed over it. They said to each other,

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

“After all you are the most beautiful, peacock.”

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

“Well, the swan has some style!”

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

“No, a king of the birds has to be good at singing. I think the spring bird is going to win.”

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

 Such a big fuss they’ve made. Each one of them tried their best to become beautiful, cleaned themselves and preened their fine feathers in a river.

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

 Only a jackdaw didn’t join the group.

 He didn’t enjoy at all.

 He knew he wasn’t a good-looking, can’t sing, and the color was so ugly. Nothing of him was worth participating in the contest.

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

 As he flew over the river feeling so sad, he found many feathers scattered on the ground. He said to himself,

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

“I have an idea. I’m going to fool everybody with these feathers.”

 He picked up those colorful feathers attached them to his body trying to decorate himself.


 Now, the contest begins.

 God couldn’t take his eyes off of the jackdaw.

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

“What a beautiful and rare bird that is. I think I should make him the winner.”

 The jackdaw felt so grateful for knowing himself is the winner. He was so pleased, kneeled to the God.

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

 Then some bird got angry.

“Give me back my feather, you wicked jackdaw!”

said the bird and jumped on the jackdaw, pricked him so hard and took his feather out of jackdaw’s body.

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

 The other birds did the same to jackdaw, took each one of their feather out of his body.

美しい鳥コンテスト 鳥の神さま

 Finally the jackdaw became dirtier and uglier than ever.


 Soon you’ll be exposed as a fake, if you take from others.

 Adornments that do not belong to you can lead to humiliation.

 That’s the moral of this story.

The end

One-point advice
“A spring bird” is also known as “A Japanese bush warbler” or “A Cettia diphone”.

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