<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Ordinarily, the graphs glossed "meizan" in the waka below would be read "nagori." Is there an exception that applies here, I wonder? <DIV>"naho" is emphatic in the context - roughly, the phrase "yori mo nao" means 'even [or yet] more than [the winds that scatter [entice] the blossoms...]</DIV><DIV>FWIW L Cook<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 27, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Maria Jose wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">The title of the film corresponds to the last tanka <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Lord Asano Takuminokami of Chushingura story/Ako Clan fame</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">composed before commiting seppuku, in which he compares himself to scattered</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">fallen flowers,presumably of sakura:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Kaze sasofu hana yori mo naho haru no meizan ikani tokasemu</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Lucida Grande"><B>風さそふ 花よりもなほ 我はまた 春の名残を いかにとかせむ</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">but what exactly is "naho"?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Maria Jose Gonzalez</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Kansai University<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>