PRIEST In the fighting with torches and in mêlée—
KUMASAKA They had no equals.
PRIEST In northern Hakoku?
KUMASAKA Were Aso no Matsuwaka and Mikune no Kure.
PRIEST In Kaga?
KUMASAKA No, Chohan was the head there. There were seventy comrades who were very strong and skilful.
CHORUS While Yoshitsugu was going along in the fields and on the mountains we set many spies to take him.
KUMASAKA Let us say that he is come to the village of Ubasike. This is the best place to attack him. There are many ways to escape if we are defeated, and he has invited many guests and has had a great feast at the inn.
PRIEST When the night was advanced the brothers Yoshitsugu and Nobutaka fell asleep.
KUMASAKA But there was a small boy with keen eyes, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and he was looking through a little hole in the partition, alert to the slightest noise.