Wotomera ga 1 woke ni taretaru umiwonasu Nagato no ura ni asa nagi ni 5 michi kuru shiho no yufu nagi ni yose kuru nami no sono shiho no iya masumasu ni 10 sono nami no iya shikushiku ni wagimoko ni kohitsutsu kureta Ago no umi no 15 ariso no uhe ni hamana tsumu ama wotome domo unagaseru hire mo teru-gani 20 te ni makeru tama mo yurara ni shirotahe no sode furu miye tsu ahi ’mofurashi mo! 25 1-3 form a sort of m. k. to _naga_ (Nagato); _naga_ means long, and the m. k. implies ‘long as the thread of the ball of yarn in a girl’s basket’. 20 _gani_ = _sama_, _yô_. For _umiwonasu_ see List m. k. 143 Ama hashi no 1 nagaku mo ga mo takayama mo takaku mo ga mo Tsukuyomi no 5 motaru wochi-midzu i-tori-kite kimi ni matsurite wochi yeshimu mono 6 _wochi_ seems to mean renovating. There is a word-play on this _wochi_ and the homophon in the preceding line. It is explained in (I.) as _hazhime ni modoru, moto ni kaheru_. 144 Nunakaha no 1 soko naru tama motomete yeshi tama ka mo hirihite 5 yeshi tama ka mo atarashiki kimi ga oyuraku woshi mo! 7 _atarashiki_, here not ‘new’ but = _oshimubeshi_, what is prized, loved, regretted. See N. 362, where Dr. Aston so translates _atarashiki Winabe no takumi_, the much-to-be-regretted carpenter. But the epithet here may refer to _wi_ (well), part of the name Winabe, and probably means fresh. _Takumi_, however, is more than ‘carpenter’, rather ‘builder’ or ‘architect’. 9 _oyuraku_ = _oyu koto_, fact of being or growing old. 145 Shikishima no 1 Yamato no kuni ni hito saha ni michite aredomo fujinami no 5 omohi matsuharu wakakusano omohi tsuki ni shi kimi ga me ni kohi ya akasamu 10 nagaki kono yo wo! 9 _me_ almost = person. 10 Read _akasamu_ with _yo wo_. The m. k. _wakakusano_ (7) applies to _kimi_ (9). 146 Akitsushima 1 Yamato no kuni ha kami kara to kotoage senu kuni shikaredomo 5 a ha kotoage su ame tsuchi no kami mo hanahada waga omofu kokoro shirazu ya 10 [yuku kage no] tsuki mo he-yukeba tamakagiru hi mo kasanarite omohe ka mo 15 mune yasukaranu kofure ka mo kokoro no itaki suwe tsuhi ni kimi ni ahazuba 20 waga inochi no ikeramu kihami kohitsutsu mo are ha wataramu masokagami 25 tada-me kimi wo ahi miteba koso aga kohi yamame. Ohobuneno 1 omohi-tanomeru kimi yuwe ni tsukusu kokoro ha woshikeku mo nashi! 5 5 i.e. _kami no kuni_.