ancestor of the Fumi Grandees.[1]) Again he sent as tribute two artisans,—a smith from Kara named Taku-so[2] and a weaver from Go[3] named Sai-so.[4]
[Sect. CXI.—Emperor Ō-jin (Part VIII.—The Emperor Intoxicated).]
Again there came over [to Japan] the ancestor of the Hada Rulers,[5] the ancestor of the Aya Suzerains,[6] and likewise a man who knew how to distill liquor, and whose name was Nim-pan,[7] while another name for him was Susukori.[8] So this [man] Susukori distilled some great august liquor, and presented it to the Heavenly Sovereign, who, excited with the great august liquor that had been presented to him, augustly sang, saying:
“I have become intoxicated with the august liquor distilled by Susukori. I have become intoxicated with the soothing liquor, with the smiling liquor.”[9]
- ↑ Fumi no obito. Fumi signifies “any written document,” so that this “gentile name” is equivalent to our word “scribe.”
- ↑ 卓素. The transliteration of this, as of all other such names here occurring, is the Sinico-Japanese transliteration. Kara (Korea) is written 韓.
- ↑ 吳 (Wu, Jap. Go), one of the states into which China was divided during the third century of our era. A draper’s shop is still called go-fuku-ya, i.e., “Wu-garments-house” in memory of the introduction of wearing apparel from that country.
- ↑ 西素.
- ↑ Hada no miyatsuko, 秦造, a “gentile name.” Hada is the native Japanese word used as the equivalent of the Chinese name 秦, Ch‘in. Its origin is uncertain.
- ↑ Aya no atahe 漢直, a “gentile name.” The use of Aya to represent the Chinese name 漢, Han, is as difficult to account for as is that of Hada mentioned in the preceding Note.
- ↑ 仁番. Another and more Japanese-like reading, Niho, is invented by Motowori; but the older editors read Nim-pan according to the usual Sinico-Japanese sound of the characters. The modern Korean reading would be In-pōn.
- ↑ Written phonetically 須須許理.
- ↑ Thus translated, this Song is too clear to need any explanation. The lines, however, which are rendered by “with the soothing liquor, with the smiling
