To Lady Rokujō.

Pi-sē. See Hetherington, Early Ceramic Wares of China, pp. 71–73.

Manyōshū, 893.

The Bodhisattva Samantabhadra rides on a white elephant with a red trunk.

Suyetsumuhana, by which name, the princess is subsequently alluded to in the story.

I.e. the redness of the princess’s nose.