=nahanorino=, like rope-seaweed; with _hiku_ (draw, haul), 173; also with phrase _na ha katsute norazhi_ (name not yet told). =nakukonasu=, like weeping child; m. k. of _shitafu_ (to love, as child crying for its mother); _koto dani tohazu_ (infans); _ne nomi shi nakayu_ (sound of weeping and wailing); _yuki-tori-saguri_ (cry for things as children do), 49, 61, 173. =nakutadzuno=, screaming crane; used with _ne nomi shi nakayu_ (see _nakukonasu_), 55. =nakutorino=, like screaming birds; with _ma naku toki nashi_ (continuously); here the m. k. is used as sound- and sense-quibble. =namayomino= (_nama yo mi no_), fresh sweet flesh (of shell-fish; applied by quibble to Kahi, name of province); _-- kahi_ = shell, 37. =naminohono=, like crest of wave; m. k. of _itaburashi_ (_itodo furu_), heave wildly. =nanorisono=, like _nanori_ (_naminori_ = wave-ride), a seaweed, Sargassum sp.?; a quibbling m. k. of _na_, name, _nanori_, tell name, _noru_, tell, _na nori so_, do not tell. =narashibano=, apparently oak-faggots; used, by sound-quibble with _nare_? =narukamino=, like thunder-god; m. k. of _oto_, sound, noise, 72. =natsukusano=, like summer herbs; m. k. of Nu (pl. n.) = _no_, moor, or _nayu_, grow, flourish--_nayu_ contracted into _nu_; of _nayete_ (_nayu_), in _omohishinayete_ (think inclinedly of, love), here rather to _shinayete_, 16, 26. =natsusobiku=, written summer-hemp-draw, is explained as _na tsuri sawo hiku_, fish-angling-rod-haul; m. k. of _umi_, sea, as in Unakami (pl. n.) = _umi no kami_, of _Unahi_ = _umi na hi_ (_umi no ahi_)? Another explanation is more literal--the hemp gathered in summer from the _une_ or furrows, 148. =nayotakeno=, like bending bamboo, m. k. of _towoyoru_; _towo_ = _tawa_ (of _tauamu_), flexuous, gracefully pliant, delicate, 29, 45. =nihanitatsu=, plant within forecourt, here, i.e. garden; m. k. of _asa_, in _asate kobusuma_ (hempen coverlet or rug or night-garment). =nihatadzumi=, form pool; said of the flow of tears (_nagaruru namida_). =nihatsutori=, forecourt-bird; the cock. =nihimurono=, like new dwelling, it ought to be _nihimuro wo fumi-shidzumi_, tread level the earth-floor or platform of a new dwelling, and the whole phrase applied by pivot-word (_fumi-shidzumi_), to Shidzu no ko, the girl Shidzu (Miss Gentle). =nihotorino=, like grebe or water-fowl pairing together (like turtle-doves emblematic of spousal love); this m. k. used generally with words of affection, _futari narabi_ (passing life together), _nadzusahi_ (floating together), &c., also with _kadzuki_ (dive), _ashi nure_ (wet-foot), _oki naga_, for _iki naga_ (long-breath--as after diving), 48, 61. =nikogusano=, like _niko_ (?) flower; m. k. of _hanatsuma_ (woman finely dressed? Cf. _hana yome_ = bride); also, by sound-quibble, of _nikoyaka_. =nochiseyama=, Nochise-hill, by sound-quibble used with _nochi_, after. =notogahano=, Noto river, used as if, _noto_ = _nochi_, cf. Nochiseyama.