3 kusuhashiki = kusushi.
1-12 relate to the wooers; 13, 14 are interjectional, expressing pity for the girl’s fate.
13, 14 wotomera ga [koto wo] kikeba.
15-20 describe her beauty, &c. 19, 20 though in the flower of her age; 21-34 her despair and death; 35 to end, her choice of a tomb-place, and the miraculous growth from the comb wherewith she marked the spot, that her memory might endure.
For utsusemino, tamakiharu, haruhanano, akinohano, tsuyushimono see List m. k.
251
Kanashimi uta.
Ametsuchi no 1
hazhime no toki yo