I'm glad Craig said it first, but I was about to jump in. Having lived in
Japan in the middle 1950s, I still remember a little of the language, and
yama is a word that sticks, as in Fuji Yama.

Ed Castillo (wondering how hard this week's hurricane will hit the East
Coast)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Cowing"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:01 AM
Subject: [IBC] "yamadori" boxwood


Kitsune Miko wrote:

snip
Yama means picked, dori means mountain.
Kitsune Miko


At the risk of contradicting someone who uses a Japanese name as a
pseudonym ;0}, I
am quite sure that it is the other way around--this I got from two native
Japanese. "Yama" means "mountain." "Dori" is from the Japanese verb "to
take."

Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37

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