Thread:Eckilsax/@comment-92249-20161215043155/@comment-92249-20161215201317

"Hotori" is simply an alternate reading of "Hen" which is more often used to imply "near a lake". Maybe "poetic" was a wrong way of putting it but the "Hen" reading is simply inaccurate here. "Hen" for 辺 is used for these definitions: (1) area; vicinity; region; (2) {math} side; edge; (3) circumstances. "Hotori" is used for these definitions: (1) (uk) (esp. ほとり) on the bank of; by the side of (e.g. a river, pond); (2) (in the) neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; nearby. I don't know why you two are so opposed to this, particularly when the raw doesn't specify either reading.

EDIT: So it seems that "Ike no He" is more accurate now that the issue with り being absent makes for "Hotori". How does this sound instead?