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 1 I      |     magnify the sonority of their song.~ ~   But I never can become
 2 II     |        singing was about.~   "The song of the boy," he said, "is
 3 II     |         boy," he said, "is an old song: - ~Things never changed
 4 II     |      myself a boy." And the other song? "The other song is probably
 5 II     |        the other song? "The other song is probably new: - ~      
 6 II     |           my arms.~A very foolish song!"~   "I don't know," I said. "
 7 II     |           what is the rest of the song?"~   "There is no more:
 8 II     |          that is the whole of the song. If it be honorably desired,
 9 II     |            these little gushes of song, like the untaught poetry
10 II     |       knows that in the following song the speaker is not a woman: - ~
11 II(2)  |              Sôté misho.~The only song of this form in the collection.
12 II     |     fractional notes; singing the song that Manyemon remembers
13 II     |         thief, so out of love the song!"~
14 III    |      extort the music of a German song, entitled "Five Hundred
15 VI     |        and~{p. 129}~sang a little song that she made herself. I
16 VII    |          of the people are busy.)~Song of the Emperor NINTOKU.            ~
17 VII    |         There survives an ancient song of which the burden runs, - "
18 VII    |        only, in the time when the song was written; steamers also
19 VII    |        children singing a naughty song (Shinshû bozu e mon da!),
20 VII    |             so that in a Japanese song the wine-lover is made to
21 VIII(2)| voluntarily die together; and the song might be called a song of
22 VIII(2)|        the song might be called a song of jôshi.
23 VIII(1)|      those indicated in the above song is an omen of coming separation.~
24 VIII(2)|                              This song is of a priest who breaks
25 VIII(1)|              Mama naranu.~   This song especially refers to unhappy
26 VIII(1)|        playfully referred to. The song complains of a too brief
27 VIII(3)|        phrase. The meaning of the song is: "Since all things in
28 VIII(2)|      placed in cemeteries. - This song is sung in every part of
29 VIII(1)|   Literally translated, the above song runs: "Three-thousand-worlds-in
30 VIII(1)|         evident reference in this song to the Buddhist proverb:
31 VIII(2)|           perils of the sea. This song is a satire on jealousy;
32 VIII   |       certainly suggested by some song like the one immediately
33 VIII   | immediately preceding it. It is a song of loyalty, and was composed
34 VIII   |    composed~p. 208}~and sang this song as an intimation of his
35 VIII   |     history of the use of popular song as a medium for the utterance
36 VIII   |        preceding note upon Kido's song, the Buddhist phrase, Sanzen