Nama-dak['e] hishigu
Chikara ari-keri!

[_Though the Snow-Woman appears to sight slender and gentle,
yet, to snap the pine-trees asunder and to crush the live
bamboos, she must have had strength._]

Samuk['e]sa ni
Zotto[38] wa sur['e]do
Yuki-Onna,--
Yuki or['e] no naki
Yanagi-goshi ka mo!

[_Though the Snow-Woman makes one shiver by her coldness,--ah, the
willowy grace of her form cannot be broken by the snow (i.e. charms us
in spite of the cold)._]

[Footnote 38: _Zotto_ is a difficult word to render literally: perhaps
the nearest English equivalent is "thrilling." _Zotto suru_ signifies
"to cause a thrill" or "to give a shock," or "to make shiver;"
and of a very beautiful person it is said "_Zotto-suru hodo no
bijin_,"--meaning! "She is so pretty that it gives one a shock merely
to look at her." The term _yanagi-goshi_ ("willow-loins") in the
last line is a common expression designating a slender and graceful
figure; and the reader should observe that the first half of the term
is ingeniously made to do double duty here,--suggesting, with the
context, not only the grace of willow branches weighed down by snow,
but also the grace of a human figure that one must stop to admire, in
spite of the cold.]

VII. FUNA-Y[=U]R['E][:I]

The spirits of the drowned are said to follow after ships, calling for
a bucket or a water-dipper (_hishaku_). To refuse the bucket or the
dipper is dangerous; but the bottom of the utensil should be knocked
out before the request is complied with, and the spectres must not
be allowed to see this operation performed. If an undamaged bucket or
dipper be thrown to the ghosts, it will be used to fill and to sink
the ship. These phantoms are commonly called _Funa-Y[=u]r['e][:i]_
("Ship-Ghosts").

The spirits of those warriors of the H['e][:i]k['e] clan who perished
in the great sea-fight at Dan-no-ura, in the year 1185, are famous
among Funa-Y[=u]r['e][:i]. Ta[:i]ra no Tomomori, one of the chiefs of
the clan, is celebrated in this weird r[^o]le: old pictures represent
him, followed by the ghosts of his warriors, running over the waves to
attack passing ships. Once he menaced a vessel in which Benk['e][:i],
the celebrated retainer of Yoshitsun['e], was voyaging; and
Benk['e][:i] was able to save the ship only by means of his Buddhist
rosary, which frightened the spectres away....

Tomomori is frequently pictured as walking upon the sea, carrying a
ship's an