| Grieving her child's disappearance, the woman composed a Japanese poem that said, 'I myself am willing to take the punishment for peeking, but the small oxcart concealed my child. I do not know how to heal this grief,' and she posted the slip, on which the poem was written, on the door of her house. |
女は嘆き「罪科（つみとが）は我にこそあれ小車のやるかたわかぬ子をばかくしそ」と一首詠んで戸口に貼り付けた。 |