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鯉のぼり (1913)
Composer: unknown　Lyricist: unknown

甍の波と雲の波、 重なる波の中空を、 橘かをる朝風に、 高く泳ぐや鯉のぼり。	Tile roof waves and cloud waves, in the sky of the overlapping waves, to the morning winds with scent of Tachibana, Koinobori are swimming aloft.
開ける廣きその口に、 船をも呑まん 様見えて、 ゆたかに振ふ 尾鰭には、       物に動ぜぬ姿あり。	The open wide mouth, it may swallow a boat,  and richly shaking tail fin, no one can move it but winds.
百瀬の瀧を登りなば、 忽ち龍になりぬべき、 わが身に似よや男子と、 空に躍るや鯉のぼり。	"swimming upstream,  passing the overlapping rapids,  I become Ryu.  Imitate me, boys!”  saying, Koinobori are jumping in the sky.

鯉 Koi

 鯉のぼり
via Wikimedia Commons

“鯉のぼり”(koinobori) is Koi-fish windsock that parents with young son display for their son from the end of April to the first week of May in Japan.
This is a song of  “鯉のぼり”  written in Classical Japanese.  

Youtube: song of Koinobori


鯉のぼり ------interlinear translation----

iraka·no	nami·to		kumo·no	nami,
n/p-gen	n/p-cj		n/p-gen	n

tiled-roofs-  wave   and   clouds- wave,

kasanaru	nami·no	nakazora·wo
v-rel	n/p-gen	n/p-acc

overlapping  waves-   air

tachibana	kaoru	asakaze·ni
n-nom	v-rel	n/p-dat

Tachibana-flowers  having-scent  morning-wind·toward

takaku	oyogu·ya	koinobori
adj-y	v-s/p	n-nom

high  they-are-swimming·!  Koinobori

hirake·ru	hirok	sono	kuchi·ni
v/av-rel.pf	adj-rel	dem	n/p-dat

being-opened  wide  that  mouth

fune·wo·mo	noma·n	sama	mie·te
n/p-acc/p	v-m/av-rel.fu	n-nom	v-y/p

boat·also   swallow·being-about-to  condition   it-shows·and

yutakani	furuu	ohire·niwa
adj-y	v-rel	n/p-dat

richly  shaking  tail-fin

mono·ni	dōze·nu	sugata	ari
n/p-dat	v-m/av-rel.neg	n-nom	v-s

things·at    moving·not   figure  it-has

momose·no	taki·wo	nobori·na·ba
n /p-gen	n /p-acc	v-y/av-m.pf/p-cj

hundred-stream-  rapids    I-went-up·and

tachimachi	ryū·ni	nari·nu·beki
adv	n/p-dat	v-y/av-s.pf/av-rel.fu

at-once  Ryu   become·being-sure-to

wagami·ni	niyo·ya	onokogo·to
pn-1sg/p-dat	v-imp/p	n-voc/p

me  imitate!   male-child!·saying-that

sora·ni	odoru·ya	koinobori
n/p-dat	v-s/p	n-nom

sky   they-are-jumping!  Koinobori

note---------------------------------------------
橘: tachibana, Citrus tachibana
龍: ryū,  Chinese dragon

Referring to 後漢書 (5th century,  China), “In the Yellow river,  if a fish swims upstream and passes the rapid current called Dragon gate, it will become a dragon.”