Note 95 — Chapter IV · TAMAKATSURA
Arthur Waley translation
See vol. i, chapter iv.
96 Tō no Chūjō’s child by Yūgao. Her name was Tamakatsura.
97 The large southern island upon which the modern town of Nagasaki stands.
98 Tō no Chūjō.
99 The God of the Sacred Mirror, at Matsura, in Hizen.
100 Herself.
101 See my 170 Chinese Poems, p. 130.
102 There is a story in Japan that the wife of the Chinese Emperor Hsi Tsung (874–888 A.D.) was so ugly that she was nicknamed ‘Horse-head.’ In obedience to a dream she turned to the East and prayed to the Kwannon of Hasegawa in Japan. Instantly there appeared before her a figure carrying Kwannon's sacred water-vessel. He dashed the water over her face and she became the most beautiful woman in China.
103 A short distance from the Hasegawa Temple.
104 Of Tsukushi.
105 I hesitate to use the word ‘Confessor.’
106 Now about six years old.
107 Fujitsubo.
108 Pulled by servants, the oxen being unyoked at the Gate.
109 The Lady of Akashi's daughter.
110 The Royal Gods Izanagi and Izanami bore a leech-child; as at the age of three it could not stand, they cast it adrift in a boat. It made a song which said: ‘I should have thought my daddy and mammy would have been sorry for me, seeing that at three years old I could not stand.’ See vol, ii, p. 185.
111 Tamakazura = jewelled wig.
112 ‘I go astray.’
113 A coat worn inside out brings dreams of one’s lover.