六条澗ろくじょうま Rokujōma

Suttsu, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō

Ainu spellings: Rokuntew

Rokujōma is the sheltered landing on the far side of the Iwasaki point from Suttsu harbour.

Referents

shore The landing south of Suttsu harbour, beyond the point called Iwasaki; now the district of Rokujō-chō. Small fishing boats lie there today; Japanese benzai ships were once brought in.

Analyses

rokuntew

ロクンテウ ‘passenger ship’ proposed

rokuntew ‘passenger ship’

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

A name of the same shape occurs in Aomori. Tamura's dictionary carries rokuntew as a loan and gives 六条 as the possible Japanese source.

Confidence: low

rokuntew is a dictionary word with this meaning, and the place is a landing where large Japanese ships were brought in. The direction of borrowing is unsettled: the dictionary itself marks 六条 as a possible Japanese origin for the Ainu word.

zenibako_trek… 「六条澗（ロクジョウマ）」田村1996 rokuntew ロクンテウ【名】[< 日本語ろくでう（六条）（?）]「客船。」

Attestations

六条澗 map Edo period 林子平図

The name appears between Suttsu, then at the mouth of the Shubuto, and Cape Benkei; it is already common on mid-Edo maps.

zenibako_trek…

Sources

zenibako_trek… 田村1996