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234 was called where the august child was born was Umi. Again the stone which she wound round her august skirt is at the village of Ito in the Land of Tsukushi.

Again when, having reached the village of Tamashima in the Department of Matsura in Tsukushi, she partook of an august meal on the bank of the river, it being then the first decade of the fourth moon, she then sat on a shoal in the middle of the river, picked out threads from her august skirt, used grains of rice as bait, and hooked the trout in the river. So down to the present time it is an uninterupteduninterrupted [sic] [custom] for women in the first decade of the fourth moon to pick out threads from their skirts, use grains as bait, and hook trout.