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Suttsu, Shiribeshi region, Hokkaidō

湯別

ゆべつ Yubetsu

The hot spring at Yubetsu was known from Ainu times, opened for bathing in the Bunkyū years, and redrilled at its present site in the early Heisei years.

Ainu spellings: Yu-pet, Yu-o-pet

Analyses

yu-pet

ユベツ

received reading

hot-spring river

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

The name reads straight off as it stands.

zenibako_trek2024 「湯別（ユベツ）」田村1996 yu ユ【名】[< 日本語ユ（湯）] 温泉
Analysis details
Confidence: medium

yu and pet are dictionary words in the proposed senses, the compound is ordinary, and no source contests it.

yu-o-pet

ユオベツ

proposed

river with a hot spring in it

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

高橋蝦夷図 writes ユヲーベツ, which may point to this shape. The author raises the same possibility for Yūnai on the Raiden coast at Iwanai, which can also be read yu-un-nay 'stream with a hot spring', with a transitive verb inserted.

zenibako_trek2024 「湯別（ユベツ）」
Analysis details
Confidence: low

The reading rests on one map's spelling, and the author states it as a possibility.

Attestations

  • ユヲーベツ map Edo period 高橋蝦夷図
  • 湯の沢川 document 1856
    この小川、半里ばかり上に温泉あるよしや

    Matsuura Takeshirō in Ansei 3; the spring was known long before it was opened. The first bath was made in the Bunkyū years, seven or eight years later. The present source at Yubetsu-no-yu was drilled in the early Heisei years.

Related names

  • 湯内 ゆうない — A stream on the Raiden coast at Iwanai, read the same way. zenibako_trek2024

Sources