Dainagon mi-waraite, “Nanjira ga kimi no tsukai to na o nagashitsu. Kimi no ōsegoto o ba, ikaga somuku beki” to no hite...
The Great Councillor looked at him and laughed, "You had spread about your names as the emissaries of a lord. How is it you should turn from a matter of respect for lord" he said...
Iwaku, “Nanji, osanaki hito, isasakanaru kudoku o okina tsukurikeru ni yorite, nanji ga tasuke ni tote, katatoki no hodo tote kudashi shi o”
What he said [was], "Thy young person, due to what an old man had achieved in slight merits, though we sent her down for but a short time for thy aid...
^ Saeki, Umetomo (1958) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 8: Kokin Wakashū [Compendium of Classical Japanese Literature, volume 8: Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
↑ 3.03.13.2Horiuchi, Hideaki, Akiyama, Ken (1997) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 17: Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari [New Compendium of Classical Japanese Literature, volume 17: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and the Tales of Ise] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
Yatipoko2 no2 kami 2 no2 mi1-ko2to2 ya aga Opokuninusi na ko2so2 pa wo ni imaseba utimi2ru sima no2 saki1zaki1 kaki1mi2ru iso1 no2 saki1 otizu wakakusa no2 tuma mo2tase rame2 a pa mo2 yo2 me1 ni si areba na wo ki1te wo pa nasi na wo ki1te tuma pa nasi...
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711–712, Kojiki, Expression error: Unrecognized word "second".:
So he sent both Michinoomi no mikoto, ancestor of the Ōtomo muraji; and Ōkume no mikoto, ancestor of the Kume atai, who revile Yeukashi: “Enter ye (these two characters are read [as i ga...] accordingly) in the palace of our great lord, thou (these two character are read [as ...ore...] accordingly) be first to enter with clear intention to serve and respect him,” and...
↑ 1.01.1Kurano, Kenji, Takeda, Yūkichi (1958) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Kojiki, Norito [Compendium of Classical Japanese Literature, volume 1: Records of Ancient Matters and the Shinto Ritual Prayers], Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
^ Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c.759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.
↑ 3.03.13.23.33.4Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c.759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.