A poetic location in Yamato: the western peak of Mount Kasuga, located in the east of modern Nara. It was used for wordplay involving kasa ‘umbrella’. The first two lines of the poem, mikasa yama/sasiFanarenu ‘far from Mt Mikasa’ – the woman the man has come to see – suggest kasa sasanu ‘without an umbrella’, leading to, “I heard you (came to see her) without an umbrella (when she had told you not to)-surely (not) in such rain, I thought!”