carpenter's blunder should be discovered and remedied.

Saka-bashira
Tatéshi wa tazo ya?
Kokoro ni mo
Fushi aru hito no
Shiwaza naruran.

[_Who set the house-pillar upside-down? Surely that must have
been the work of a man with a knot in his heart._]

Hidayama we
Kiri-kité tatéshi
Saka-bashira--
Nanno takumi[51] no
Shiwaza naruran?

[_That house-pillar hewn in the mountains of Hida, and thence
brought here and erected upside-down--what carpenter's work
can it be? (or, "for what evil design can this deed have been
done?")_]

[Footnote 51: The word _takumi_, as written in _kana_, may signify
either "carpenter" or "intrigue," "evil plot," "wicked device." Thus
two readings are possible. According to one reading, the post was
fixed upside-down through inadvertence; according to the other, it was
so fixed with malice prepense.]

Uë shita wo
Chigaëté tatéshi