[85] Hōjō no Tokiyori ruled at Kamakura from 1246 till 1256. He then became a priest and travelled through the country incognito in order to acquaint himself with the needs of his subjects.
[86] Sanskrit; Jap. sotoba.
[88] Now generally called Kayoi Komachi.
[89] The Kōyasan is not so remote as most mountain temples.
[91] Seami, writing c. 1430, says: “Komachi was once a long play. After the words ‘Who are those,’ etc., there used to be a long lyric passage” (Works, p. 240).
[92] “Heart flowers,” kokoro no hana, is a synonym for “poetry.”
[93] Vajrasattva, himself an emanation of Vairochana, the principal Buddha of the Shingon Sect.
[94] From the Nirvāna Sūtra.