[15] I have omitted a line the force of which depends upon a play on words.
[16] The Taira evacuated the Capital in the second year of Juyei, 1188.
[17] Ichi-no-Tani means “First Valley.”
[18] The name of so humble a thing was unfamiliar to the Taira lords.
[19] Atsumori. This passage is mimed throughout.
[20] A great preacher; died 1212 A.D.
[21] The name given to streams which flow through temples. In this case the River Kamo.
[22] Tadasu means to “straighten,” “correct.” The shrine of Kamo lay in the forest of Tadasu.
[23] Adapted from a poem in the Shin Kokinshū.
[24] Ikuta means “Field of Life.”