4 _kotoage_, declare, announce--perhaps with neg. sense of ‘indescribable’. 8 Read _waga hanahada omofu_. 15, 17 _ka mo_ almost = _mo gana_. 24 _wataramu_, pass one’s days. 28 _yamame_ (_yamamu_--_yamu_), cease, stop. 5 _nashi_, written with the character, read homophonally _nashi_ (pear), is here the negative copula. For _akitsushima_, _tamakagiru_, _ohobuneno_ see List m. k. 147 Ashiharano 1 Midzuho no kuni ha kamu nagara kotoage senu kuni shikaredomo 5 kotoage so aga suru koto sakiku ma sakiku mase to tsutsumi naku sakiku imasaba 10 ariso nami arite mo mimu to i-ho-he nami chihe nami shiki ni kotoage so aga suru! 15 4, 6 _koto_ (_koto-age_) is here words, language, in 7, thing, affair. _Koto-age_ is explained (I) as _toku ni toritate ifu_, make special declaration. 11 _ariso nami_ is a word-play connected with _ari_(_te_). 148 Inishihe no 1 ihitsugi kuraku kohi sureba yasukaranu mono to tamanowono 5 tsugite ha ihedo wotomera ga kokoro wo shirani soko shiramu yoshi mo nakereba 10 natsusobiku … … omohi-nadzumi karikomono kokoro mo shinu ni hito shirezu 15 motona so kofuru iki no wo ni shite! 2 _kuraku_ = _karu_. 11 _natsusobiku_ (a m. k.) is perhaps a word-jingle with _nadzu[mi]_; some lines are lost here. 13 _komo_ is Zizania aquatica. 16, 17 Syntactically the order of these two lines may be reversed. For _tamanowono_, _natsusobiku_, _karikomono_ see List m. k. 149 Aratamano 1 toshi ha ki-sarite tamadzusano tsukahi no koneba kasumitatsu 5 nagaki haru hi wo ame tsuchi ni omohi-tarahashi tarachineno haha no kafu ko no 10 mayo komori iki-dzuki watari waga kofuru kokoro no uchi wo hito ni ihamu 15 mono ni shi araneba matsu ga ne no matsu koto tohomi amadzutafu hi no kurenureba 20 shirotaheno waga koromode mo tohorite nurenu. Kaku nomi shi 1 ahi ’mohazaba amakumono yoso ni so kimi ha arubeku arikeru. 5 17, 18 Note the word-play on the two _matsu_. _Ne_ is here rather trunk than root. For _aratamano_, _tamadzusano_, _kasumitatsu_, _tarachineno_, _amadzutafu_, _shirotaheno_, _amakumono_ see List m. k. 150 Wohari-ta no 1 Ayuchi no midzu wo ma-naku so hito ha kumu chifu tokizhiku so 5 hito ha nomu chifu kumu hito no ma-naki ga goto nomu hito no tokizhiku ga goto 10 wagimoko ni aga kofuraku ha yamu toki mo nashi. 151