Chapter 25 JAPANESE COURTSHIP

O-bune no

Hatsuru-tomari no

Tayutai ni

Mono-omoi-yase-nu

Hito no ko yuye ni.

With a rocking

(As) of great ships

Riding at anchor

I have at last become worn out with love,

Because of a child of a man.

When the Fujinami returned to Tokyo, the wing of the house in which the unfortunate son had lived, had been demolished.