41. The Mound of the Metal Spade

1Again 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:

2“Oh! the mound where the maiden is hiding! Oh for five hundred metal spades! then might [we] dig her out!”

3So that mound was called by the name of the Mound of the Metal Spade.