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THE NOUN.
Owing to the general Japanese habit of naming persons after places, such words as the above denote not only the "book-store," the "butcher's shop" and the " bakery," but, by extension, the "bookseller," the "butcher" and the " baker " themselves. Sometimes indeed the person only, and not the place, is thus designated, as :
kuruma-ya, " a jinrikisha-man " sliimbun-ya, "a newspaper man."
IT 57. Names of trees and plants often terminate in ki, " tree," or in its nigori'ed form gi, thus :
liagi, " the lespedeza." mugi, " wheat, " bar-
ley."
"the meria."
crypto-
susukij "the eulalia " (a kind of tall grass).
tsubaki, " the camellia- tree."
yanagi, "the willow- tree."
"1 58. Names of rivers end in kawa (generally nigori'ed to gawa), " river ;" names of stretches of sea in nada ; those of islands in shima (often nigori'ed to jiuin) ; those of mountains in yama, thus :
6k aw a, lit. " Great River."
Sumida-gawa, "the River Sumida."
Bungo-nada, the stretch of sea near the pro- vince of Bungo, se- parating the islands of Kyushu and Shi- koku.
Osliima, lit. " Big Is- land," a name common to several islands off the Japanese coast.
Ogasawara-jima, " the Bonin Islands;" named Ogasawara after their discoverer.
Asania-yama, " Mount Asama."
