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60b	Sake no hakari ga nōe Sake no hakari ga nōe Sake no sai sai Hakari Fuji no yama Fuji no yama[1]	A measure[2] of wine, A measure of wine, A measure of A measure ofwine.[3] Fuji mountain, Fuji mountain.
60c	Fuji no yama hodo nōe Fuji no yama hodo nōe Fuji no sai sai Yama hodo Murote mo iya yo	As much as Fuji mountain, As much as Fuji mountain, As much as As much asFuji mountain Given to me, I’ll ignore it.
60d	Meido no miyagi nōe Meido no miyagi nōe Meido no sai sai Miyagi[4] Murote mo iya yo	The souvenir of Hades, The souvenir of Hades, The souvenir of The souvenir ofHades Given to me, I’ll ignore it.
60e	Fuji no shiro yukya nōe Fuji no shiro yukya nōe Fuji no sai sai Shira yukya Asahi de tokeru	The white snow of Fuji, The white snow of Fuji, The white snow of The white snow ofFuji In the morning sun will melt.

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1. The accent of this last yama is shifted from the first syllable to the last, thus stressing the final syllable of the song, as is also done in the other Niwaka stanzas.
2. A hakari is a beam scale, commonly used to measure various things, including the rice wine sake. No definite amount is indicated in the song, but a shō is a usual amount to purchase under such circumstances—i.e., sending a man servant or a maid servant to buy some wine. A shō equals about half a gallon (American measure).
3. “Is like” is understood here.
4. In the song as it appears in my field notes this line reads meido no miyagi, but this does not fit the form of the other stanzas and is probably an error.