1. Thereupon his Empresses and likewise his august children, who dwelt in Yamato, all went down and built an august mausoleum, and, forthwith crawling hither and thither in the rice-fields encompassing the mausoleum. sobbed out a Song, saying: "The Dioscorea quinqueloba crawling hither and thither among the rice-stubble, among the rice-stubble in the rice-fields encompassing the mausoleum..."

2. Thereupon the dead prince, turning into a white dotterel eight fathoms long, and soaring up to Heaven, flew off towards the shore. Then the Empress and likewise the august children, though they tore their feet treading on the stubble of the bamboo-grass, forgot the pain, and pursued him with lamentations. At that time they sang, saying: "Our loins are impeded in the plain over-grown with short bamboo-grass. We are not going through the sky, but oh! we are on foot."

3. Again when they entered the salt sea, and suffered as they went, they sang, saying.

4. "As we go through the sea, our loins are impeded, tottering in the sea like herbs growing in a great river-bed."

5. Again when the bird flew and perched on the sea-side, they sang, saying: "The dotterel of the beach goes not on the beach, but follows the seaside."

6. These four Songs were all sung at Yamato-take's august interment. So to the present day these Songs are sung at the great interment of a Heavenly Sovereign. So the bird flew off from that country, and stopped at Shiki in the land of Kafuchi. So they made an august mausoleum there, and laid Yamato-take to rest. that august mausoleum was called by the name of the "August-Mausoleum of the White-Bird." Nevertheless the bird soared up thence to heaven again, and flew away.