12 ifusemi, ibusemi, here = anxious, impatient.
15 Chinu is in Idzumi, mentioned both in K. and N.
23 mayumi, Euonymus Hamiltoniana, Max.
24 yuki, quiver (yumi-oki?).
29 wagimoko = waga imoho, here means their mistress, i.e. Unahi no wotome.
40 shitabahe = undercreep—okite, secretly.
47 okuretaru, being behind, the Unahi wotoko was jealous of his rival being the first to follow their mistress in death.
48 wotoko-i. Dr. Aston thinks this i may be the Korean particle.
53 mokoro wo ni—hito no gotoku ni.
56 wo-tachi, small sword, dagger.