[8] Foxes, dressed up as men, were believed to be in the habit of seducing and bewitching human beings.
[9] We gather later that she was only nineteen.
[10] I.e. covered part of his face with a scarf or the like, a practice usual with illicit lovers in mediæval Japan.
[11] Shin Kokinshū, 1701.
[12] Lady Rokujō.
[13] To summon a servant.
[14] The bringing of a corpse. Temples were used as mortuaries.
[15] I.e. pursued illicit amours.
[16] Pilgrimages to Kiyomizu Temple are made on the seventeenth day.