Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts / Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries

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katsura. There are four homophons: (1) katsura no ki, Cercidiphyllum jap^m.; (2) Katsura, a place in Yamashiro, called after a famous courtesan; (3) kadzura, a grass Brachypodium jap^m.; (4) kadzura, false hair, also a chaplet, and sane-kadzura, a sarmentaceous magnoliad, Kadzura jap^a.

katsuwo, tunny.

kaube (kôbe), head, Ta.

kawaki (u), dry up, to dry, T.

ka-yasuki, quite easy, [225].

kayofu, go, or come from one place to another (kayohamu, kayohasu, kayohashishi, kayohikemu, kayohikemaku, kayohasase), T.

ka yori kaku yori, thither, hither.

kazareru (kazaru), adorn, T.

kazashi (u), kami sasu, stick in hair, as adornment.

kaze (kami-shi), wind (God-breath); — mazhiri, wind and [rain] together, [67].