[69] Goreizai, from 1046 to 1068.
[70] This is called the Byōdōin and is one of the famous buildings now existing in Japan (see illustrations in Cram's Impressions of Japanese Architecture), built upon an exquisite design, and original in character. It had been the villa of the Prime Minister, but was made into a temple in 1051, when the riches of the interior decorations were more like the gorgeousness of Indian temples than the chaster decorations of Japan.
[71] At Nara where the great Buddha, 160 feet high, was already standing.
[72] In those days it was the custom for the person who wished to be favoured by the Inari god to crown his head with a twig of cedar. The Inari god was then the god of the rice-plant. He is now confused with the fox-god whose little shrines, flanked by small stone foxes, are seen everywhere.
[73] A kind of leathern shield made of untanned deerskin worn hanging from the shoulder.
[74] The World: i.e. her husband.
[75] The following poems have been found impossible of literal translation on account of play of words.
As I slept fondly thinking of him
He appeared to my sight—
Oh, I would I had not wakened
To find it only a dream!
[77] Her brother Sadayoshi was Governor of that Province.