Motherwort. 
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This precocious monarch was much troubled in his mind by a 
prediction that he would die before he attained his fifteenth 
year. A certain philosopher, named Lido, however, brought 
him from Nanyo-no-rekken a sovereign specific for procuring 
a long life, in the shape of some of the motherwort’s beautiful 
yellow flowers. The emperor caused zakki to be made from 
them, and drinking of that beverage every day, lived upwards 
of seventy years. The opportune introducer of these flowers, 
having given offence to his illustrious patient, was banished 
from Court, whence he once more betook himself to the won¬ 
derful village, and there, drinking nothing but water impreg¬ 
nated with motherwort, he lived to the ultra-patriarchal age of 
three hundred ; wherefore he was known to subsecuent ages 
by the cognomen of “ Sien-nin-foso.” 
