弁慶ナツボ べんけいなつぼ Benkeinatsubo
Yoichi, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: Perkei
A shore name at the foot of Shiriba-yama, carried as a formal sub-district name.
Referents
- settlement The shore at the foot of Shiriba-yama where the large rocks stand and a cleft splits the rock. 字弁慶ナツボ was the formal sub-district name of the time.
Analyses
perke-i
ペㇾケイ ‘split place’ proposed- perke ‘be split, be cracked’
- i ‘place’
Proponent: 諸説
The article reports the reading of ベンケイ as perke-i and of ナツボ as 魚坪 without naming who holds them, and states that neither is settled.
Confidence: low
perke is a dictionary word in the sense used and there is a cleft in the rock at the place. The source names no proponent and marks the reading as unsettled; the second element is unexplained.
zenibako_trek… ベンケイナツボ
Sources
zenibako_trek…