Tōryanse

You may go in, you may enter
Which way is this narrow pathway?

This is the narrow pathway of the Tenjin shrine
Please allow me to go through

Those without good reason shall not pass
To celebrate the 7th birthday of this child
We've come to dedicate our offering
Going in may be easy, but returning would be scary
It's scary, but
You may go in, You may pass through

Long ago there were people who were very poor
that they did not even have rice to eat
in those homes it was such a terrible thing that children had nothing to eat
that their fathers and mothers would kill them before they starved to death.
This is the song of those poor children who were carried away by their mothers to be killed.
It turned out to be scarier for the mother
Because the soul of the murdered child would always follow her.