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Iwanai, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō

チセセ

ちせせ Chisese

The cliff at Chisese is one of the two things the author names as worth stopping for on this coast, the other being the Katanakake rock seen from the old hot-spring settlement.

Ainu spellings: Chise-sir, Chise-sir-oma-i, Chis-ya

Analyses

chis-ya

チシヤ

proposed

shore of the standing rock

  • chis standing rock
  • ya shore

Proponent: 榊原正文

Taken as the shore of an inlet with a reef that could be called a standing rock, and referred to the coast northeast of the Oyakobetsu River, near Futatsu-iwa. The coordinates of 今井測量原図 agree with that position. Besides the red-frog rock and its neighbour that remain at Futatsu-iwa, one more large standing rock once stood beside the road and was blown up as a hazard.

Objections

  • チセセ against チシヤ is hard to call either close or distant. 伊能図 has チセシリマイ, which the author reads from instead. — zenibako_trek zenibako_trek2023
zenibako_trek2023 「ウエンドマリのチセセ」に引く『データベースアイヌ語地名 後志1』
Analysis details
Confidence: low

Neither part is carried in the proposed sense by the dictionaries consulted here, and the reading does not account for the ri of the fuller spellings.

chise-sir

チセシㇼ

proposed

house mountain

Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))

伊能図's チセシリマイ supplies the ri that the other spellings lose, and gives chise-sir as the base. The referent is then the mountain behind: the great cliff visible from the parking area, which anyone arriving here cannot fail to see.

Variants

  • chise-sir-oma-i ‘the thing that is at the house mountain’ — The form behind チセセリヲマヘ and チセシリマイ.
zenibako_trek2023 「ウエンドマリのチセセ」田村1996 cise チセ【名】家
Analysis details
Confidence: low

cise is a dictionary word and sir is the land and mountain noun; the reading rests on one map's spelling and on the author's identification of the cliff.

Attestations

  • チセヽ map Edo period 東西蝦夷山川地理取調図

    松浦図 and 今井測量原図 both carry チセヽ beside チセヽリヲマヘ.

  • チセヽリヲマヘ map Edo period 今井測量原図
  • チセシリマイ map Edo period 伊能大図

Related names

  • チセシリマイ ちせしりまい — Nagata's entry says of it 「岩石墜落して今は無し」. At the coordinates a large rock stands beside the disused road, but whether that is the thing meant is unclear. It may instead be a waterfall: the Chisese cliff carries several, the Kumoma-no-taki on the topographic map and one that climbers call the Nile. zenibako_trek2023
  • タンネシナイ たんねしない — A stream with a waterfall on the same cliff, which the author reads with a hedge as tanne-so-nay 'long waterfall stream'. It was dry in October and may run at the thaw. zenibako_trek2023

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