=imogasode=, my love’s sleeve; with _maki_, roll up, of Makimuku Hill. =imogatewo=, my love’s hand; with _tori_ (take), _toru_ or _toro_; Toroshi no ike, Pool of Toroshi. =inamushiro=, rice-straw matting; used as _kaha_ (skin employed also as mat); with _kake_ and _shiku_, apply, spread, by quibble with _kaha_, stream, 102. =inanomeno=, the word means daybreak (not-sleep-eye); applied to _ake_, open, break as dawn; another explanation is, _ina no me_ (_ina_--rice-plant--_no mure_) _no_, _ake_ is then confounded with _aku akaramu_, grow ruddy, ripe, and an involved word-play results. =inuzhimono=, dog-like; _-- michi ni fushite_, lying down (dying), like a dog by the roadside. =irihinasu=, like the setting sun; with _kakuru_, hide, withdraw, 28, 50. =isanatori=, whale-catching; used with _umi_ (sea) _hama_ (shore); _nada_--open sea--Hijiki no nada; Afumi no umi (Lake Ômi or Biwa) by extension, 16, 19, 30, 40, 78, 193. =Isayagaha=, a river-name; used with reference to the interjection _isa!_ =isokahino=, like shore-shells; used with _kata_ (unpaired as in _kata kohi_, solitary love, because one of the pair parted from the other); probably the shell meant was a bivalve, one valve = _kata_. The simile is found in English poetry. =isomatsu= (Statice arbuscula, Max.); used with _tsune_ (always), _matsu_ (pine) indicating length of time. =Isonokami=, a tract in Yamato where a place existed named Furu, which may mean, old, or to pour down (as rain); hence Isonokami is used as a m. k. of _furu_, 45. =iyukiahino=, where men climb and meet from either side; as a hill-pass. =iyushishino=, arrow-shot or wounded deer; with _kokoro wo itami_, grieve my heart; _-- yuki mo shinamu_, like stricken hart go on to die. =kadzunokino= (_kaji noki_, Broussonetia papyrifera); applied with sound-quibble to _wa wo kadzusane_ = _ware wo kadohashi wite yukane_ (_kadohashi-gataku_); _kadohashi_ = _kadowakashi_, abduct, kidnap. =kadzuragake= = _hikage_ (Lycopodium clavatum)--club-moss (used in ritual?), hence a praise-word applied to _kimi_ (lord), _kuhashi_ (comely). =kahadzunaku=, frog-croak; used with waters, _idzumi_ (source), _kaha_ (stream). =kahayagino= (_kahayanagi_), river-willow; used with _ne_ (homophonous with _ne_, root) of _nemokoro_ (_nengoro_), earnestly. =kagaminasu=, mirror-like; applied to _miru_ (see) and _mi_ in compounds and place-names; to _imo_ (my love), to _tsuma_ (spouse)--in both cases = precious, a mirror being regarded as a treasure; to the phrase _kaku shi tsune mimu_, thus ever indeed to see, with allusion to the mirror constantly kept (_kaku_) by the bed-place, 26, 55.