Mikapa no kuni yatupasi to ipu tokoro ni itari-nu soko wo yatupasi to ipi-keru pa midu yuku kapa no kumo-de nareba pasi wo ya-tu watas-eru ni yorite namu yatupasi to ipi-keru .
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)