augi tatau-gami nado yobe makura-gami ni oki-sikado onodukara pika-re tiri-ni-keru o motomuru ni kurakereba ikade ka wa mi-mu idura idura tataki-watasi mi-idete augi putaputato tukawi putokoro-gami sasi-irete makari-na-mu to bakari koso iu rame
fan folding-paper etc . last.night pillow-head DAT put-SPST.although naturally pull-PASS scatter-PFV-MPST ACC search DAT dark.because how FOC TOP see-will where where pat-cross see-putting.out fan (mimetic) use pocket-paper stick-put.in go.home-PFV-will COMP RES FOC say EXT
Although [he] had put [his] fan and folded paper and such at the head of his pillow the night before, when [he] searches [for them] among the things that naturally became disturbed and scattered, it being dark, how shall [he] ever find them?— saying, “Where? Where?” patting the whole area, and finding them, [he] uses [his] fan, “woosh-woosh,” and sticking [his] pocket-paper in, what [he] would surely say is something like, “[I'll] be going now”.’ (Makura no sōshi, 61, Shinpen Zenshū, vol. 18, p. 117)