風雨別 ぶうべつ Buubetsu
Shiraoi, Iburi region, Hokkaidō
Ainu spellings: Pu-pet
One of the three branches of the Shiraoi River; the reading turns on what storehouse the name refers to.
Location
42.5377, 141.3349 · Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 2026-09-10, on 風雨別橋. Open in OpenStreetMap
Referents
- river The Buubetsu River, the middle of the three branches of the Shiraoi River
Analyses
pu-pet
プーベツ ‘river of the storehouse’ received readingProponent: 定説
The author supports the reading and says that nothing plainly contradicts 'the river where the storehouse stood', while he sees few names of the same shape. He offers the ridge west of the river, called Fūsawa cape on the Sendai domain map of eastern Ezo, as the storehouse the name may refer to, reading Fūsawa as pu-sapa 'the head of the storehouse'; the river beside that cape would then be Buubetsu. hure-pet 'red river' is also current.
Both parts are dictionary words in the senses used, and the reading is straightforward. The author reports few parallels for a name of this shape, and the storehouse he points to is a reading of a second name, Fūsawa.
Related names
- フウサワ岬 — The ridge west of the Buubetsu River, named on the Sendai domain map of eastern Ezo. The author reads it pu-sapa 'the head of the storehouse'. zenibako_trek…