真珠貝の(しんじゅがいの)殻で(からで)丸い(まるい)お墓を(おはかを)作り(つくり)、日の出と(ひのでと)日の入りを(ひのいりを)何度も(なんども)見送りながら(みおくりながら)静かに(しずかに)待った

For the woman, the man crafted a round grave using a mother-of-pearl shell and decided to wait beside it for a hundred years. Watching the sun set red and rise again from the east countless times, the man quietly kept waiting, wondering, 'Has the hundredth year not arrived yet?'