Kudara no hara yu kamu hafuri 130 hafuri-i mashite asamoyoshi Kinohe no miya wo toko miya to sadame-matsurite 135 kamu nagara shidzumarimashinu shikaredomo waga ohokimi no yorodzu yo to 140 omohoshimeshite tsukurashishi Kagu yama no miya yorodzu yo ni sugimu to ’mohe ya 145 ame no goto furisake mitsutsu tamatasuki kakete shinubamu kashikokaredomo! 150 Hisakata no 1 ame shirashinuru kimi yuwe ni tsuki hi mo shirani kohi-wataru ka mo! 5 Haniyasu no 1 ike no tsutsumi no komorinu no yukuhe wo shirani toneri ha madofu! 5 1 _kakemaku_ = _kakemu_ (_koto_), about to utter. 5 _ihamaku_ = _ihemu_ (_koto_), about to say. 8 _amatsu mikado_, heavenly palace, tomb or mortuary chapel or barrow of Temmu at Ohouchi (N. II. 387). 14 _ohokimi_ = Temmu. 16 _sotomo_, outer or back face, i.e. north (Mino). 19 _komatsurugi_ is m. k. of Wa(zami). 22 _amori_, _ama ori_, descend from heaven. 27 The m. k. applies to A(dzuma). 35 The _miko_ is Takechi. 36 _maki_ = _makase_, charge with. 37 _ohomi mi_, great self. 42 Pause at end of this line. 59 under force of the wind. 60 Another pause. 62 _yumi no hadzu_. 66 _ka_ = _kaze_. 69 Another pause. 73 Pause. 84 Read this line after 86. 88 Pause, but taken as a sort of pivot, may be connected with _Midzuho no kuni_ in the next line. 90 A god, as god. 93 _ohokimi_ is Jitô. 95 The indirect object of _mawoshi …_ is not expressed, it is Jitô (A.D. 690-6). 98 A quibble is seen by some commentators in _yufu_ (_ifu_). 101 _miko no mikado_, the mortuary chapel of Takechi. 102 _kamu miya_, as a god-shrine. 105 the watchers. 108-9 The _hara_ before the _Kagu yama no miya_ (143). 116 _ohotono_, the _mikado_ already mentioned. 129 _yu_ = _yori_. 130 _hafuri_, officials at funerals and interments; _hafuru_, to conduct obsequies. 132 m. k. of Ki[nohe]. 137 pause. 139 _ohokimi_ must be Takechi. 142 _tsukurishi_. 145 would outlast, they think belike. 149 _[kokoro ni] kakete._ 150 Read before 148. The syntax of this lay is not always clear. The _Kogi_ in its explanation does not refer to Jitô, and almost seems to regard the _mawoshi_ of 95 as addressed to Temmu. For _hisakatano_, _yasumishishi_, _komatsurugi_, _toriganaku_, _chihayaburu_, _fuyukomori_, _tsuyushimono_, _yukatorino_, _yufuhanano_, _shirotaheno_, _akanesasu_, _nubatamano_, _udzuranasu_, _harutorino_, _kotosaheku_, _asamoyoshi_, _tamatasuki_ see List m. k. MAKI II SHIMO 25 Yuge no miko no sugimaseru toki Okisome no Adzuma-hito ga yomeru uta hitotsu.