Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts / Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries - Unknown

1-6 indicate all men under heaven.

1 shirakumono applies to clouds on which the sun is shining, awokumo to clouds unsunned.

For shirakumono, awokumono, amakumono, see List m. k. The Kogi separates this lay from the next to which, in some editions, it serves as an introduction.