All Three. Master Yuranosuke, we humbly apologise for our conduct.

Yuranosuke. Here, Heiyemon, let this drunken guest take a bath in the River Kamo.

Heiyemon. Yes, sir.

Yuranosuke. Go.


[ [1]The Japanese three-stringed guitar.

[ [2]A play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the greatest of Japanese dramatists (1653—1724).

[ [3]The ashigaru were a grade lower than the samurai; and in war they were common soldiers.

[ [4]When her lord, Satehiko, left on an expedition to Korea, Sayo-hime stood on a high rock and waved her sleeves to his vessel. She remained there so long that she was turned into stone.

[ [5]An allusion to a popular legend of the Stars Vega and Altair on the opposite sides of the Milky Way.