[45] Yoshitsune (Ushiwaka) had run away from the temple where he was being educated and joined the merchant’s caravan; see p. [70].
[46] Names of strokes in fencing.
[47] I have thought it better to print these “recitals” as verse, though in the original (as obviously in my translation) they are almost prose.
[48] Semimaru.
[49] A tall, nodding hat.
[50] 1064 A.D.
[51] I. e. Minamoto and Taira.
[52] 1156-1159 A.D.
[53] Yoshi-iye.
[54] Ushiwaka had not heard this conversation between the hatmaker and his wife, which takes place as an “aside.”