Hidaka region, Hokkaidō
日高
ひだか HidakaA Japanese name. It was given when the provinces of Ezo were named, and passed to the modern towns of Hidaka and Shin-Hidaka when villages of the region merged.
Analyses
Attestations
- 日高見国 document 1869 蝦夷地国名之儀申上候書付（松浦武四郎）
当時日高見国は常陸国、また陸奥相馬郡日高の妙見之社等、その古跡付会し候えども、紀中、文身為人勇悍是総て曰く、蝦夷の文字にてもこの地たる事
Matsuura Takeshirō proposed the province name, taking it from Hitakami-no-kuni, the eastern country of the Nihon Shoki, whose entry for the twenty-seventh year of Keikō has Takeuchi no Sukune report an eastern country of tattooed and valiant people, all called Emishi. Where Hitakami-no-kuni lay is unsettled, whether Hitachi province or the Kitakami river country at Ishinomaki; in either case it names a country toward the sunrise, east of Yamato. Matsuura named the country of the northern Ainu, the Moshirpakur, Kitami on the same pattern.
Related names
- 右左府 うしゃっぷ — The old name of the settlement at the centre of the former Hidaka town, where the Jukai Road Hidaka roadside station now stands. zenibako_trek2025
Sources
- 日高地方の地名の由来
zenibako_trek·2025-05-20