[3] It would be said that he was running after the Lady of Akashi, the old recluse’s daughter.
[4] Lao Tzŭ, say the commentators; but this saying does not occur in the Tao Tē Ching.
[5] The mirror-poem, p. [108].
[6] Evidently a Chinese tune. Attempts to identify it have hitherto been very unconvincing.
[7] Priests who collected money for their community by going round playing the biwa at street-corners.
[8] Which he had taught to Murasaki.
[9] 898–930. Sixtieth Emperor of Japan.
[10] 810–823. Fifty-second Emperor of Japan.
[11] Po Chü-i. The reference is to his poem The Lute Girl’s Song.
[12] A service performed at dawn, sunrise, midday, sunset, dusk and nightfall.