mi-wi no mashi midzu.

Fujihara no 1

ohomiya tsukahe

aretsugu ya

wotome ga tomo ha

tomoshiki ro ka mo. 5

4 hi no miko is the Queen-Regnant Jito, the subject of all the verbs down to tamaheba (v. 12).

15 hi no tate must here mean the East, and hi no yoko (21), lit. the noon-sun direction, must mean the West.

27 sotomo, hinder, shady, or north face.

33 kagetomo, light or south face. The exact distribution, however, of the meaning of these terms is not quite clear; hinotate, hi no yoke, sotomo, kagetomo.