22 tsuto, tsutsumi to, bound or arranged as a gift.

24 kokire, koki-ire, lit. strip-put-in. The value here is somewhat uncertain, perhaps to strip off the flowers and set them on the sleeve in some way.

26 karashi, caus. of karu wither. mi here, as in 22, has an iterative force.

39 hita-teri, right dazzling.

52 kaku, thus, i.e. weathering all the seasons, but kaku may be read kagu, fragrant, i.e. pleasing all the year through, hence by a word-play the appropriateness of the term ka-guhashimi (25).

For shirotaheno, ashihikino, tokihanasu see List m. k.

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Niha no hana wo mite yomeru uta.

Ohokimi no 1

toho no Mikado to