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Section CLIX. Emperor Yū-riyaku (Part X.—The Mound of the Metal Spade)

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Section CLIX. Emperor Yū-riyaku (Part X.—The Mound of the Metal Spade)

Again when the Heavenly Sovereign made a progress to Kasuga to wed Princess Wodo, daughter of the Grandee Satsuki of Wani, a maiden met him by the way, and forthwith seeing the Imperial progress, ran and hid on the side of a mound. So he composed an august Song. That august Song said: “Oh! the mound where the maiden is hiding! Oh for five hundred metal spades! then might [we] dig her out!”

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So that mound was called by the name of the Mound of the Metal Spade.

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Basil Hall Chamberlain's translation (1882). Following the conventions of his time, he put a few sexually explicit passages into Latin rather than English.

“Ko-ji-ki,” or Records of Ancient Matters, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. X, supplement (Yokohama, 1882). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers. · Source ↗

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