羅処和島 らしょわとう Rasshua
Northern Kuril Islands
Ainu spellings: Rashua
Rasshua marks a boundary in グリゴリ's usage: the islands from Rasshua south he sometimes called Samuru and their people Samuru-guru (p. 36).
Location
47.7417, 153.0136 · Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 2026-09-11, on 羅処和島. Open in OpenStreetMap
Referents
- island The island south of Matua; one of the three islands with permanent Kuril Ainu villages; Russian Расшуа
Analyses
Attestations
- Rashua oral record 1903 鳥居龍藏『千島アイヌ』第二章「千島地名解」
Torii gives the form without comment; his list of places on the island (pp. 56–59) came from ラウレンチ and グリゴリ (p. 40).
鳥居1903 p. 44
Sources
鳥居1903