Mikapa no kuni yatupasi to ipu tokoro ni itarinu soko wo yatupasi to ipikeru pa midu yuku kapa no kumode nareba pasi wo yatu wataseru ni yorite namu yatupasi to ipikeru .
Mikawa GEN country Yatsuhashi COMP say place DAT arrive-PFV this.place ACC Yatsuhashi COMP say-MPST TOP water go river GEN spider-hand COP.because bridge ACC eight-thing cross-STAT DAT depending FOC Yatsuhashi COMP say-MPST
[They] came to a place called Yatsuhasi. As for its being called Yatsuhashi, it was due to the fact that [they] spanned eight bridges over it, because the river of water divided into spider legs, that [they] called it “Yatuhashi”.’ (Ise monogatari, Shinpen Zenshū, vol. 12, p. 120)