4 = ihitsugikeru.

6, 8 To tafutoku and kanashiku (also to sabushiku, v. 36), add nari.

15 chisa = chisha, lettuce. Wild salads of all kinds were much esteemed in ancient Japan.

15-36 describe the anxiety of the wife.

18 ko = lady.

20 smiling or not, in all moods.

25, 26 her reliance on the gods.

31 This line is doubtful—sense is possible only by reading sakari as = hanare or hanachi.

37 minami [kaze].

37-41 introductory to Saburu.