38 nagekasuramu, honour-causative. Compare with the ordinary form below, nakuramu.
45 ma-tsukahi mo nashi, no messenger one way or the other.
56 = masurawo.
57 ya being removed to a position after fuseramu, makes the sense clearer.
vv. 6-20 relate to the poet’s illness.
For masurawono, ashihikino, amazakaru, utsusemino, tarachineno, ohobuneno, koromodewo, nubatamano, tamahokono, tamakiharu see List m. k.
215
Yakamochi (mizhika uta).
Haru no hana 1
ima ha sakari ni