=akiyamano=, like autumnal hills; _-- shitaberu imo_ (little sister delicate as fading sprays on an autumn hill-side); _-- iro natsukashiku_, play on _iro_, colour (of autumn), and _iro_, term of endearment, added to _natsukashiku_, lovely. =amadzutafu=, sky-climb; _-- hi_ (sun); _-- irihi_ (setting sun); _Higasano ura_, 17. =amagomori=, rain-hidden; applied to Mikasa Hill (Cloud- or Mist-capped Hill). =amakazofu=, meaning not clear, perhaps sky-fathoming; used with _oho_, great, vast, or _ohoyoso_, universal? =amakumono=, like sky-cloud; used with _tayutafu_ (drift); _yukura yukura_, _yuki no manimani_, _yukikaheri_, all involving idea of motion to and fro, driftingly, &c. Also to _okuka mo shirazu_, unknowing term or end; _tadoki mo shirazu_, helpless; _yoso_, any- or somewhere else; _wakareshi yuku_, depart and go, 22, 25, 37, 45, 48, 57, 58, 62. =Amanohara=, the sky-plain; _-- Fujiye_, _Fuji-san_, as piercing the sky. =amateruya=, heaven-shine-Oh! applied to _hi_ (sun). =amatobuya=, sky fly-Oh!; used with _karu_ (mallard?), 27. =amatsumidzu=, sky-water, i.e. rain; used with _afugite matsu_, looking up to the sky as when hoping for rain, 22, 234. =amazakaru=, heaven-distant; applied to _hina_, frontier-land, 9, 55, 213. =amenimasu=, seated in heaven; used with _tsukuyomi wotoko_, God of the moon. =amoritsuku=, descend-from-heaven-upon; used with _Ame-_ or _Kami-no Kaguyama_ (Mt. Kagu), 33. =arahikinu=, cleansed vestment; used with name, Torikahi River; _torikahi_ = change (clean for soiled garment). =arakakino=, rough fence; used with _yoso_, elsewhere, without. =ararenasu=, hail-like; used with _sochi yori kureba_, as if the hail came from _sochi_, there--a curiously far-fetched application. =arareutsu=, hail-beaten; used with Arare, place-name. =arataheno=, coarse or unprepared stuff; used with Fuji (Wistaria, fibres of which made a coarse cloth) as part of place-names, Fujiwi, Fujiye, &c., 13, 14, 21. =aratamano=, afresh, anew, future?; applied to _toshi_ (years), _tsuki_ (months), _ki-he_, pass on, pass, elapse, 48, 49. =Arichigata=, place-name; used as sound-quibble with _ari_. =arikinuno=, fresh or fine garment; used by sound quibble with _arite arite nochi ni mo ahazarame ya mo_; here _arite_ = _ari-ari_ = real existence; with Mihe (place-name, lit. threefold), according to Motowori the ‘three’ refer to outer, inner, and middle garment; with _sawi-sawi_ (_shidzumi_), rustling (of dress against dress), tranquillity; _sawe sawe_, similar sense; with _takara_, treasure, K. xcix. =Arimasuge=, Arima sedge; sound-quibble with _ari_. =arisomatsu=, shore pine; used with the homophon _matsu_ (wait), as in _arisomatsu a wo matsu kora_, Oh, the pine by the shore! there the maid pines for me! =arisonami=, shore-waves; by sound-quibble used with _arite_ for _ari-arite_.