Akiyama ni 1
chirafu momiji-ba
shimashiku ha
na chiri-midari so
imo ga atari mimu. 5
1 ivy-grown.
3 to utter words indistinctly. There is a word-fancy here, Kara being the name of a division of Korea. At this period of Japanese history Korean immigrations were frequent. See Aston’s Nihongi.
5 ikuri = black mud at bottom of sea or pool. (K. 285, LXXIV, N. 269, where it is translated ‘rocks’.)
6 fukamiru = deep-sea miru (a kind of sea-weed).
11, 12 A word-fancy on fukamiru and fukamete.