Note 6 — LAFCADIO HEARN (continued 3)
Reading edition
Totémo kono yo dé Sowaré-nu naraba Hasu no uténa dé Ara sėtai.
Lit.: "By-any-means, this-world-in, cannot-live-together if, Lotos-of Palace-in, new-housekeeping." It is with this thought that lovers voluntarily die together; and the song might be called a song of jōshi.