=takamikura=, high-grand-throned; used with _Ama no hi tsugi_, descent from Heaven’s sun, 228. =takigikoru=, cut faggots; used with _kama_, bill, homophonous with Kama (kura), hill-name. =takubusuma=, a quilt or sleeping-dress made of _taku_ (white mulberry-bark cloth); hence applied to _shira_, white, in names and compounds. =takudzununo=, a rope made of mulberry-fibre; used with words of whiteness and of length as _shirahige_ (white hair); Shiraki (a Korean province); _nagaki inochi_, long life, 49, 262. =takuhireno=, wimple or _hire_ made of mulberry cloth; used with Shirahama (white sands); Sagi [saka], Stork Pass; _kake_, put on. =takunahano=, cord of mulberry-fibre; used with _chihiro_, a thousand fathoms [long], 29. =tamadzusa=, precious white-wood (Catalpa); used with _tsukahi_, messenger. Motowori thinks they carried a jewelled wand of _adzusa_ as a badge. Others say _tamadzusa_ were exchanged between men and women, as a keepsake or souvenir in Michinoku, made of paper variously arranged to give different meanings; in Sanuki, a lover’s offering made of straw. It may have been a spray of Catalpa (or cherry?) to which a gift or writing was attached. Now it means simply a letter. Used with _imo_ (my love), it is sometimes merely a praise-epithet (like a kind of Trichosanthes tamadzusa flower), 27, 45, 59. =tamahayasu=, jewel-like-brilliant; used with _muko_, suitor, bridegroom. =tamahokono=, a difficult word, jewelled-spear or precious spear; it is used with _mi chi_ (road). Motowori says _mi chi_ originally meant haft of a spear, and thus explained the use with _mi chi_, road. Another account makes it illustrative of the straightness of a good road. Dr. Aston sees in it a phallic sense. The m. k. is found also with _sato_, village (_sato_ = _mato_ = _michi_?), 15, 27, 28, 30, 31, &c. =tamajihafu=, blessing man’s spirit; _jihafu_ = _sachihafau_ = saiwai; used with _kami_, deity. =tamakadzura=, false hair, a chaplet; used with _kage_ (for _omokage_? face-form, features); with _kake_, put on, 39, 48. =tamakadzura=, the Kadzura creeper; used with _tayuru toki naku_ (never ending), and _iya tohoku nagaku_, further and longer in space or time, 74. =tamakagiru=, said to be error for _kagirohi_, 146. =tamakatsuma=, _katsuma_ = lidded wicker-work receptacle or basket, pannier?; used with _afu_, meet, fit (as lid does body of basket); also with _abeshi_ (_afu_), and Shimakuma (hill-name); latter use obscure, 48. =tamakiharu=, this may be = _tamaki haku_, draw on armlet, used with _uchi_ for _ude_ (arm); or limit (_kiha [ma]ru_), length of life (_tama_ = _tamashii_), so used with _inochi_, life, _yo_, period, age. The m. k. is variously written, 3, 64, 69, 70, 136. =tamakushige=, precious comb-box, toilet-box; used with _ake_ (open), with Mimuro (hill-name), _mi_ = body of comb-box; Futagami (hill-name), the homophon _futa_ = lid; with _ashi_ (reed), as = _asa[ke]_, shallow cavity.