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               ■Transliteration 
              Let's pick up Hatsune-san this time 
                And toss her up into the air. 
                But be careful, not to keep her up too long 
                While it's fairly dangerous. Ala! 
                Wait, let's stop it. 
                Hhm, she's run away already  
                Having heard of our conversation.  
                I am thinking how to catch her. 
                Neh, A! I hit a good idea now! 
                Hatsune-san 
                Is such a glutton woman. Drop 
                And scatter this orange's (peels *) 
                Here around. You 
                Shall be a lure now 
                And pretend to 
                Pick them up.  
               *→means unreadable character 
              ■From Big Edo Prints■ 
                 about the 
                dusting soot in ladies' chambre  
              Every 13th of December was the day of dusting 
                soot in Shogun's palace. According to this, Daimyo(lord), Hatamoto 
                (retainer), their vassals and citizen dusted soot around this 
                day. 
                There was a custom of tossing up of the fellow and other entertainment 
                by menservants and farmhands after the dusting soot in ladies' 
                chambre.  
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