A Chinese instrument; often translated ‘mouth-organ.’

A song the words of which were used as a first writing lesson.

There is here a pun, and a reference to poem 3807 in the Manyōshū.

To Lady Rokujō.

Arises out of some connection in a previous existence.

Purple is murasaki in Japanese. From this poem the child is known as Murasaki; and hence the authoress derived the nickname by which she too is known.