It is told that long ago in China, when a man named Wu SU was abandoned in a country where the people were of a difference race, his wife and children at home climbed a koro (high tower) and pounded a kinuta because they were concerned about the cold at night in the place where he was.'
｢昔、中国の蘇武という人が、異民族の国におきざりにされたとき、古里の妻子は夫のいるところの夜の寒さを案じて、高楼にのぼって砧を打ったといいます。」