^{page 193 note 1} Geschichte der japanischen Literatur.

^{page 193 note 2} History of Japanese Literature.

^{page 193 note 3} Japanese Texts.

^{page 193 note 4} e.g. Waley, , Japanese Poetry (Clarendon Press, 1919).Google Scholar

^{page 193 note 5} Where no date is given it may be assumed that the writer lived c. 700. In cases where no writer's name is given the poems are anonymous.

^{page 195 note 1} A satirical appeal to the oarsmen to row hard through the storm.

^{page 195 note 2} Addressed by a lady to a lover leaving her at dawn.

^{page 197 note 1} The meaning of this fixed-epithet of “hemp” is uncertain.

^{page 197 note 2} To be consistent I should transliterate keu or kyō, but the ancient form seems more appropriate in poetry.

^{page 198 note 1} Addressed by a rustic lady to a fine lord. To “share a garment” means to lie under the same cloak.

^{page 198 note 2} The remaining songs are, to a varying degree, in the Eastern dialect.

^{page 199 note 1} Song of a soldier fighting on the frontier.

^{page 199 note 2} “Rafter-dust Secret Collection”; so called because a good song shakes the dust on the rafters.

^{page 202 note 1} .

^{page 202 note 2} suu means “to put as an obstruction”; cf. Ise Monogatari: Sono kayoiji ni yogoto ni hito wo suyete.

^{page 203 note 1} is written against this word; but no word kuu, “to kick,” is known to the dictionaries.

^{page 203 note 2} There is a modern Tōkyō children's song which begins Mai, mai, tsuburo! But like most modern snail-songs it ends with an appeal to the animal to put out its horns.