Ihami no ya 1 Takatsunu yama no ko no ma yori aga furu sode wo imo mitsuramu ka. 5 Sasa ga ha ha 1 mi-yama mo saya ni midaredomo are ha imo omofu wakare kinureba. 5 1 _mi_, _umi_, sea. 2 _mi_, neighbourhood, tract. 5 _kata_, land dry at low tide. 21 with the motion of the waves. 28 _yaso_, lit. 80 = many, all. 35 Read with _nayete_. 39 _nabike_, has imperative meaning. 3 _ko_ is tree. 5 _mitsuramu_ = shall have seen? 2 _mi-yama_ = great hills. _saya ni_, murmurously. 5 Read before 4. The m. k. (35) applies to _nayete_. For _isanatori_, _tamamonasu_, _tsuyushimono_, _natsukusano_ see List m. k. 17 Tsunusahafu 1 Ihami no umi no kotosaheku Kara no saki naru ikuri ni so 5 fukamiru ofuru ariso ni so tamamo ha ofuru tamamonasu nabiki-neshi ko wo 10 fukamiruno fukamete ’mohedo sa-neshi yo ha ikuda mo arazu hafu-tsuta no 15 wakareshi kureba kimomukafu kokoro wo itami omohitsutsu kaherimi suredo 20 ohobuneno Watari no yama no momiji-ba no chiri no midari ni imo ga sode 25 saya ni mo miyezu tsumagomoru Yakami no yama no kumo ma yori watarafu tsuki no 30 woshikedomo kakurohi kitsutsu amatsutafu irihi sashinure masurawo to 35 omoheru are no shikitaheno koromo no sode ha tohorite nurenu. Awo koma ga 1 agaki wo hayami kumowi ni so imo ga atari wo sugite ki ni keru. 5 Akiyama ni 1 chirafu momiji-ba shimashiku ha na chiri-midari so imo ga atari mimu. 5 1 ivy-grown. 3 to utter words indistinctly. There is a word-fancy here, Kara being the name of a division of Korea. At this period of Japanese history Korean immigrations were frequent. See Aston’s _Nihongi_. 5 _ikuri_ = black mud at bottom of sea or pool. (K. 285, LXXIV, N. 269, where it is translated ‘rocks’.) 6 _fukamiru_ = deep-sea _miru_ (a kind of sea-weed). 11, 12 A word-fancy on _fukamiru_ and _fukamete_. 15 Parting is likened to stripping ivy from its rock. 16, 17 A combination of heart and liver to express mind and feeling. 27 The m. k. _tsumagomoru_ (wife-secluding) applied to the homophon _ya_ (house) of Yakami cannot be rendered. 31 Must be read parenthetically. The m. k. (1) is applied to _Iha[mi]_, of (33) to _hi_. For _tsunusahafu_, _kotosaheku_, _tamamonasu_, _fukamiruno_, _kimomukafu_, _ohobuneno_, _amatsutafu_, _shikitaheno_ see List m. k. MAKI II NAKA Afumi no Ohotsu no miya ni amenoshita shiroshimeshishi Sumera mikoto no mi-yo. 18 Sumera mikoto kamuagarimaseru toki wominame ga yomeru uta hitotsu.