=uchitawori=, used with Tamu no yama (Tamu hill); the meaning would be ‘where the path or track winds down’; _Tamu_ is contraction of _tamotohoru_, wander around, &c., _ta_ is intensive prefix. =uchiyosuru= (_-- yesuru_), come, be close to; sound-quibble with Suruga (province of). =uguhisuno=, the Japanese nightingale (Cettia cantans), used with _haru_, spring. =ukanerafu= (_ukagahi-nerafu_), track trail of; Tomi Hill--_tomi_ = trail-tracker. =ukikusano=, floating plants or weeds; used with _uki_, float, drift. =umakori=, written quibble-wise for _umaki ori_, pretty-woven; used with _aya ni tomoshiki_, strangely rare, precious, _aya ayashi_, also written quibble-wise as _aya_, pattern, design, 72. =umanotsume=, horse-hoof; with _tsuku_ of Tsukushi (_no saki_), allusion to the pounding of the road by the hoofs of a horse. =umasahafu= (compare _ajisahafu_) = _umashi-ahafu_, abundance of delicious _millet_, applied to _me_ as contraction of _mure_, crowd, multitude. As to its use with _yoru hiru_ (night and day), see under lay 82. =umasake= (_-wo-no_), sweet or delicious _saké_ (rice-beer); applied to Miwa (pl. n.), because _mi wa_ = _saké_ offered to a god; _mi_, seems to be contraction of _kami_ (sacred) _saké_, hence application of m. k. to Mimoro. Its use with Kamunabi is explained under 7, 206. =umashimono=, written strangely quibble-wise ‘horse-under,’ but meaning delicious (_umashi_), or delightful thing, applied to a kind of orange-tree--_abetachibana_. =umazhimono=, like a horse or packhorse; used with _naka toritsuke_ (lead, as prisoner, by rope or halter), and _tachite tsumadzuki_, rise or start and stumble (as a packhorse would). =umiwonasu=, like spooled (hemp) yarn; used with _naga_ (long), in Nagara, Nagato (pl. nn.), 77, 142. =umorekino=, like buried log or fossil wood; applied to what is not manifest, to _araharumazhiki_, or to _shita_, under, beneath, what is deep, hidden or unknown. =unohanano=, harebush blossom (Deutzia scabra); applied to _satsuki_ (5th month, when it blooms); to _uki_, evil, by sound-quibble (_u_); to _saku_, bloom. =usurabino=, like thin ice, sound-quibble with _usuki_, thin. =utsusegahi=, an empty acorn-shell; with _minaki_, fleshless, fruitless, selfless. =utsusemino=, probably _utsutsu mi_, real living personality, written quibble-wise _utsu_ (hollow), _semi_, cicada, i.e. cast off moult of a cicada. Thus the reality of life is bracketed so to speak with its empty vanity. Used with _inochi_ (life), _hito_ (man), _yo_ (world), _mi_ (personality), 18, 26, 28, 50, 191. =utsusomino=, 251 = _utsusemino_, q. v. =utsusowo=, _utsusoyashi_, hemp-fibre beaten soft for spinning; (_yashi_ = _yo shi_, exclamatives), used with _womi_ (lord), as homophonous with _womi_, _wo-umi_, spin (yarn).