9 An inn where soba is sold.

10 According to the mythology of the Kojiki the Moon-Deity is a male

divinity. But the common people know nothing of the Kojiki, written in

an archaic Japanese which only the learned can read; and they address

the moon as O-Tsuki-San, or 'Lady Moon,' just as the old Greek idyllists

did.

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