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HEAR thou art as modest as The little creeping spray Upon Mount Ōsaka, which hides Beneath the grass; then, pray, Wander with me to-day.

The writer’s real name was Sadakata Fujiwara, and he died 932. For an account of the Fujiwara family see verse No. 18. Mount Ōsaka mentioned here is the same place as that referred to in, and when spelled Ausaka it means ‘a hill of meeting’. The suggestion is, that if she is really like the creeping vine which grows on Meeting Hill, she will come and meet him.