kaku yore to

hito ha tsukedomo

kokoro naki 15

yama no

Okiso yama

Minu no yama.

1-7 introductory.

6 yukamashi, desirable to visit, not in itself but because a fair maid dwells there.

8-14 declare difficulty of traffic with his love; 15 to end, complain of the hills that bar his way to her; 11, 12 and 13, 14 reverse the order of these couplets, hito ha fumedomo nabike to (itte) … and they are more intelligible.

For momodzutafu see List m. k.