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Yoichi, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō

クツカルシナイ

クッカルシナイ Kutkarusinay

Where the name belongs is unsettled: the local history places it on Yunai-dake, while Uehara's road distances and the 高橋蝦夷図 point toward the Ōe side.

Ainu spellings: Kukarusnay

Analyses

ku-kar-us-nay

クカルㇱナイ

proposed

stream where bows are made

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

The reading holds for the form Kūkarushinai. Matsuura writes 「此辺山に成るよし」 of the place, and the article reads the name as a valley on the ridge running from Shikaribetsu Maruyama, allowing that the same name may stand on both the Nutchi and the Yoichi.

zenibako_trek2024 クツカルシナイ田村1996 s.v. ku 弓
Analysis details
Confidence: low

ku 'bow', kar, us and nay are all Tamura headwords in the senses used and the shape is grammatical. The spelling in Matsuura's lists is クツカルシナイ, and the reading holds only if the Kūkarushinai of the 高橋蝦夷図 is the same name.

Attestations

  • クツカルシナイ document Edo period 辰手控・竹四郎廻浦日記（松浦武四郎）
    またしばし行てクツカルシナイ、右の方 此辺山に成るよし。
  • パンケクーカルシナイ／ペンケクーカルシナイ map Edo period 高橋蝦夷図

    Given as river names around the Makununai in Ōe. Uehara Kumajirō gives the mountain road of the Bunka years as four ri from Shimo-Yoichi to Panke-gukarushinai, two and a half further to Rubeshinai, and one more to Rūchishi, the Inaho pass.

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