large as a jar.[1] At the hour of the dog[2] the constellations were (XXIX. 51.) wholly disordered,[3] and stars fell like rain.
During this month there was a star which shot up in the zenith and proceeded along with the Pleiades until the end of the month, when it disappeared.
12th month, 2nd day. The title of Sukune was granted to fifty houses, viz. Ohotomo no Muraji, Saheki no Muraji, Adzumi no Muraji, Imbe no Muraji, Wohari no Muraji, Kura no Muraji, Nakatomi no Sakabito no Muraji, Hashi no Muraji, Harahibe no Muraji, Sakahibe no Muraji, Sakarawi no Tanabe no Muraji, Ifube no Muraji, Kannaibe no Muraji, Osakabe no Muraji, Kusakabe no Muraji, Miyake no Muraji, Kobe no Muraji, Tasuki no Muraji, Tajihi no Muraji, Yuki no Tajihi no Muraji, Nuribe[4] no Muraji, Oho-yuye no Muraji, Waka-yuye (XXIX. 52.) no Muraji, Yuge no Muraji, Kami Hatori no Muraji, Nukatabe no Muraji, Tsumori no Muraji, Agata no Inukahi no Muraji, Waka-inukahi no Muraji, Tamanoya no Muraji, Nittabe no Muraji, Shidzuwori no Muraji, Hi no Muraji, Ofusama[5] no Muraji, Yamabe no Muraji, Yatsume no Muraji, Sawi no Muraji, Tsume-takumi[6] no Muraji, Ato no Muraji, Mamuta no Muraji, Tame no Muraji, Chihisakobe no Muraji, Uji no Muraji, Wi-tsukahi no Muraji, Ama no Inukahi no Muraji, Hashibito no Muraji, Usume no Muraji, Mino no Muraji, Moroahi no Omi, and Furu no Muraji.
6th day. Wohi, Hashi no Sukune, and Hōzen, Shirawi no Fubito, who had gone to the Land of Great Thang for study, and also Kobito Witsukahi no Muraji, and Tokuko, Tsukushi no Miyake no Muraji, who had been carried off to (XXIX. 53.) Great Thang during the Pèkché campaign, arrived by way of Silla. Accordingly Silla sent Kim Mul-yu, of Tè-nama rank, to escort Wohi and the others to Tsukushi.
13th day. There was a general pardon to all criminals except those guilty of capital crimes.
- ↑ Described in the "Yengishiki" as holding two to, the to being a little less than the fourth part of an Imperial bushel.
- ↑ 7 to 9 p.m.
- ↑ A commentator says that this typified the disorder of the titles of the nobility.
- ↑ Or Urushibe.
- ↑ Or Wofuama.
- ↑ Hoof-workers. Makers of imitation tortoise-shell (?).
