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.