Shin-Hidaka, Hidaka region, Hokkaidō

静内

しずない Shizunai

A moved name: the modern town and river carry a name that belonged to ground about 10 km away.

Ainu spellings: Situ-un-nay

Analyses

シツナイ

proposed

stream on the ridge

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 belongs to the original Shizunai, south-east of the present river.

proposed

Mountain foot stream

Proponent: John Batchelor

染退（シベチャリ）しべちゃり — The older name of the Shizunai River. Read si-pet-car 'the mouth of the main river' by the author; sipe-ican 'salmon spawning ground' is also proposed, which he sets aside because ican names lie further upstream. Shibechari was the seat of Shakushain, chief of the Menashkur, in the Kanbun rising, and the Shibechari casi stood on the cliff at the river mouth, where a statue of Shakushain now stands. zenibako_trek2025