momichibano, russet leaves of autumn; with chiri, sugi, utsuri, fall, pass, fade, [174], [192].
momodzutafu, hundred-wise thread or coast, i.e. as applied to yaso no shima, make one’s way among all the islands; to Minu (as mi nu, fair moors, coasting along hundreds of fair moors); Minu of course is merely a place-name, and the application of the m. k. is a quibble.
momofuneno, hundreds of ships, i.e. all ships; used with hatsuru shima, island where ships anchor, Tsushima, [97].
momoshikino, written as a hundred stone-forts (i.e. countless —); shiki seems to have been an earthwork strengthened with stone, momoshiki no miya, a palace built with stones enough for countless shiki, [33], [74], [75].
momoshinuno, hundreds (crowds) of shinu (small bamboo); used with Minu (regarded as mi nu = ma nu, true, fine moor), [185].
momotarazu, not a hundred—m. k. of yaso (eighty); of ikada (raft—ika, how many?); of i fifty (i tsuki no yeda—branches of fifty tsuki, trees), [13], [131], [204].
momoyogusa, a plant said to resemble an aster or pyrethrum; by sound-quibble with momo yo idemase—a hundred nights went forth.
mononofuno, weapon-wight, armed retainer, guard; m. k. of yaso (eighty, i.e. all the uji or tomo, guilds, military families, &c.); of uji (family); of Ihase no mori (Shrine of Ihase), because the mononofu crowded (ihamu) the camp, [13], [52], [59], [77], [92].
murakimono, the inner organs taken together; used with kokoro, heart, as one of them, [4], [128].