=matamadzura=, fine-creeper, i.e. _sanekadzura_ (Kadzura japonica); conf. _sanekadzura_, applied to what is not likely to end, as _tayemu no kokoro aga ’mohanaku ni_ = will my heart cease to love--no! =matamanasu=, like true-jewel; applied to _aga ’mofu imo_, my mistress whom I love. =matamiruno=, a sort of sea-weed (Codium?); chiefly used by sound-quibble--as with _mata yukikaheri_ again go and come. _Mata_ means ‘forked’, also ‘again’, 172. =matorisumu=, where the true-bird dwelleth, i.e. _washi_, the eagle; used with Unade no mori (the grove of Unade)--_Unade_ is written cloud-ladder which may give a clue to the meaning of the m. k. The Kogi rather applies it to _mori_ (_mamori_). =Matsuchiyama=, a hill-name; it seems to involve merely a sound-quibble with _moto tsu hito_ (written, men of old) and _matsuramu imo_ (my love who will await me, or whom I await). =matsugaheri=, a difficult word of which several more or less futile explanations are given. Here is one more. The m. k. is used with _shihite_, compellingly, &c., may it not mean, as certainly as come round the cycles of the everlasting pine-tree! =matsuganeno=, pine-tree-root; used with words denoting length of time or space; also endlessness, as with _tayuru koto naku_, ceasing is-not. The use of the m. k. with _kimi ga kokoro_ is not explained--is it with _kokoro_ as = _ki_(_ko_) _koru_, fell timber, 47, 257. =matsukaheno=, like pine and yew (Torreya nucifera, S. et Z.), or, oak, sp.; epithet applied to words of enduring and flourishing, as to _sakaye_ (bloom). =mayobikino=, like (my love’s) painted eyebrows (or the false ones on forehead above the true ones shaved off?); applied to Yokoyama (hill-name) by the poet who sees the mountain’s regular form in the distance. =mawogomono=, true-small-rush-like; applied to _fu nomi chikakute_ in a _tanka_ where the sense seems to be ‘as close as the rushes in fence wattled with them’. =midzukakino=, written water-fence, but the meaning is shining, i.e. fine fence; used with _hisashiki_, ‘for a long time’, because in Midzukaki no Miya dwelt the Mikado Suzhin, and it was hoped the _miya_ might long endure--that is the reign, the two being regarded as conterminous. =midzukukino=, like shining stem; applied to _woka_ (knoll), _woka_ being taken as a corruption of _waka_, young; and by sound-quibble to Midzuki (pl. n.). =midzutade=, water-pepper = _tade_, perhaps _midzu_ = here fine bright, not water; m. k. of Hodzumi (pl. n.), written, ear (in grain) pluck, fruit-pluck. Midzutade is Polygonum flaccidum, Roxb.--the growing fruit was--perhaps is--eaten. =midzutamaru=, water-collect; epithet of _ike_ (pool);--Ikeda (pl. n.), 134. =midzutorino=, water-fowl; m. k. of _kamo_ (wild duck), &c., also of _ukine_ (sleep afloat like water-fowl); of _awoha_ (grey wings), part of Awoha no yama; of _tatsu_ (rise, start in flight). =midzutsutafu=, skirt the water; epithet of shore, beach, _iso_.