虎にまたがりこぶしを振り上げる楊香。
画像は早稲田大学図書館古典籍総合データベースより
Caiehing(Catching?) Hold of Tiger to Save His Father
Yang Hsiang, a boy of fourteen of the Chin
dynasty used to follow his father Fang to the
field for reaping harvest.
One day his father was caught and dragged
away by a tiger, in the meantime Hsiang had
not even an inch of iron in hand to fight the
beast with; but animimated(animated?) by the idea that
his father was in danger, and he must give up
his life, forward he jumped up and got hold
of the tiger's neck.
So as it was, the tiger felt discouraged,
forsook his father, and ran away. Thus his
father was free from being killed.
楊香ちゃんが「boy」になってます。確かに、この挿絵だと男の子に見える。漢文では性別に触れてないですね。
初頴日記故事・14 楊香より
搤虎救親（虎をとらへて 父を救ふ）
晋の楊香は十四歳の時 常に父の豊（ほう）といへる人とともに 田にゆきて 粟をとる時に 思ひよらず虎きたりて父をくはへたり 楊香おどろきぬれど 手に小刀をだにもたず ただ父の大切なることを思ひ わが身ある事を思はず をどりあがりて 虎のかしらにしがみつきたり 虎又靡然（びぜん）とふりはなしてさりぬ ここにおひて 父やうやうと害をまぬかれしとなり
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