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Kyōwa and Tomari, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō

尻深

しりぶか Shiribuka

Shiribuka drops out of the later Matsumae records as well. The Ainu of Shiribuka took part in the Kanbun uprising of 1669 under the chief Kannekuruma, in which thirty Japanese were killed there; Kannekuruma paid compensation and was not executed.

Ainu spellings: Sir-pukka, Sir-un-ka

Analyses

sir-pukka

シㇼプカ

proposed

the hill swells up

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

Taken to be the meander reach on the lower Horikappu, where the Hattari dunes rise. Like Horikappu it is a name for the landform at the river mouth.

zenibako_trek2023 「堀株とシリブカ川」
Analysis details
Confidence: low

sir is the land and hill noun; pukka is in neither dictionary. The referent is read from the landform at the mouth.

sir-un-ka

シルンカ

proposed

bank with a cliff on it?

Proponent: 既存の地名解 (readings in circulation)

Taken from the シルンカ of 伊能図; the author reports the gloss with a question mark and names no proponent.

Objections

  • The form the reading rests on is a copying error in one map. ka is a locative noun and cannot stand after un. — zenibako_trek zenibako_trek2023
zenibako_trek2023 「堀株とシリブカ川」
Analysis details
Confidence: low

The reading is built on a single map spelling that the other sources contradict, and the objection to the word order stands unanswered.

Attestations

  • シリフカヱソ map 1644 正保国絵図
  • シリブカ map 1668 ゑぞの絵図

    皇圀道度図 and 松前蝦夷地之図 give the same.

  • シルンカ map Edo period 伊能図

    The author takes this for a copying error: the original 間宮河川図 and the other sources are almost uniformly シリブカ.

Related names

  • 堀株 ほりかっぷ — The name that replaced Shiribuka for the river and the district. zenibako_trek2023

Sources