Iwanai, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō
穴澗
あなま Kusna-puy松浦図 writes the name クシナフヒヲマイ; elsewhere it is クシナブイ, and the Japanese name of the place is 穴澗.
Ainu spellings: Kusna-puy-oma-i, Kusna-puy
Analyses
kusna-puy-oma-i
クㇱナプイオマイ
place with a hole one passes through
- kusna pass through
- puy hole
- oma be at, be in
- i place where
Proponent: zenibako_trek（小樽銭函地名歴史研究会） (zenibako_trek (Otaru Zenibako Place-Name and History Society))
The author takes the name to refer to the sea cave, the way people went through in earlier times. The cape at the Unoiwa tunnel is severe going, climbing and descending among large rocks with a constant risk of a fall; the author tried a little of it and judged it beyond him.
Attestations
- クシナフヒヲマイ map Edo period 東西蝦夷山川地理取調図
Written クシナブイ elsewhere.
Sources
- 雷電海岸の地名と由来 ～ライデン地名考～
zenibako_trek·2023-10-13
- アイヌ語沙流方言辞典
田村, すず子·1996