9, 10, 11, 12 … seem to mean sighing, yielding, reflecting (or melancholy), and pensive while vying … but I prefer the whole sense as given in my translation--reading _arisofu_ for _arikuru_, of which I can make nothing. 20 _ma-ko_, true child, progeny; or _mi-ko_, fair progeny. 28 _yatsu wo_, see 239. 31 _akatoki_ = _akatsuki_. For _akanesasu_, _ashihikino_, _nubatamano_ see List m. k. 241 Me ga Miyako ni imasu haha no mikoto ni okuramu tame ni atsuraherayete yomeru uta. Hototogisu 1 ki-naku sa-tsuki ni saki-nihofu hana tachibana no ka-guhashiki 5 oya no mikoto asa yohi ni kikanu hi maneku amazakaru hina ni shi woreba 10 ashihikino yama no tawori ni tatsu kumo wo yoso nomi mitsutsu nageku sora 15 yasukeku naku ni omofu sora kurushiki mono wo Nago no ama no kadzukitoru chifu 20 shiratamano migahoshi mi omowa tada mukahi mimu toki made ha matsu kahe no 25 sakaye imasane tafutoki aga kimi. 1-4 are epithetical of 5. 25 _kahe_, an old word for a species of live oak, some say Japanese yew, Torreya nucifera. For _amazakaru_, _ashihikino_, _shiratamano_ see List m. k. 242 U tsuki no mika no hi Yechizen Hangwan Ohotomo no Sukune Ikenushi ni okureru hototogisu no uta kankyu no omohi ni tahezute omohi wo noburu hito uta. Waga seko to 1 te tadzusaharite ake kureba ide tachi mukahi yufu sareba 5 furi sake mitsutsu omohi-nobe mi-nagishi yama yatsu wo ni ha kasumi tanabiki 10 tani he ni ha tsubaki hana saki ura-kanashi haru no sugureba hototogisu 15 iya shiki nakinu hitori nomi kikeba sabushi mo kimi to are hedatete kofuru 20 Tonami yama tobi koye-yukite ake tataba matsu no sayeda ni yufu saraba 25 tsuki ni mukahite ayame-gusa tama nuku made ni naki-doyome yasu-i shi nasazu 30 kimi wo nayamase. 1 _seko_ is Ikenushi. 8 = _mi nagusamishi_. 18 _ura-kanashi_, deeply _kanashi_, i.e. deeply moved here to joy, not grief. 19 _kimi_ is Ikenushi. 20 The sentence ends with _kofuru_. The next sentence ends with _nayamase_ (31), of which the logical subject is, _hototogisu_, understood. 243 Hototogisu wo yomeru uta. Haru sugite 1 natsu ki-mukaheba ashihikino yama yobi-doyome sayo naka ni 5 naku hototogisu hatsu kowe wo kikeba natsukashi ayame-gusa hana tachibana wo 10 nuki mazhihe kadzuraku made ni sato-toyome naki-wataredomo naho shi shinubayu. 15 15 _shinubayu_ = _shinubayuru_. 244 Yamabuki wo yomeru uta.