23
From the saibara ballad, The Well of Asuka: ‘Sweet is the shade, the lapping waters cool, and good the pasture for our weary steeds. By the Well of Asuka, here let us stay.’
24
The ‘Japanese zithern’; also called wagon. A species of koto.
25
As opposed to the formal and traditional music imported from China.
26
See Encyclopédia de la Musique, p. 247. Under the name Nan-lü this mode was frequently used in the Chinese love-dramas of the fourteenth century. It was considered very wild and moving.
27
Goddess of Beauty.