月見里
Japanese[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 月 | 見 | 里 |
| やまなし | ||
| Grade: 1 | Grade: 1 | Grade: 2 |
| jukujikun | ||
Unknown. The kanji spelling appears to be ateji, which would normally be read as tsukimi sato (literally “moon viewing village”).
One possible derivation suggests that this comes from an old alternate name for the village of Yamanashi in Shizuoka Prefecture (spelled 山梨; annexed into the city of Fukuroi in 1963), such that the old spelling was used for the new name. However, this explanation is probably apocryphal.
An alternative explanation is that the spelling is an old pun. The area around Yamanashi village is relatively flat, and the story goes that the reading yama nashi originally meant 山 (yama, “mountains”) + 無し (nashi, “without, lacking, none”). The spelling 月見里 apparently was in reference to the unobstructed view of the moon.[1] There is also a line from the epitaph of early Heian-period noh playwright Tachibana no Hayanari that uses this spelling and reading, and the sense of “unobstructed view of the moon”:
- 都をば今は遥かに遠江月の隈なき月見里の郷
- miyako o ba ima wa haruka ni Tōtōmi tsuki no kuma naki Yamanashi no sato
- Leaving the city now far behind to the village of Yamanashi in Tōtōmi province, with nothing to shade the moon.
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Etymology 2[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 月 | 見 | 里 |
| つき Grade: 1 |
み Grade: 1 |
さと Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi | ||
Appears to be a straightforward compound of 月見 (tsukimi, “moon viewing”) + 里 (sato, “village”).
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Proper noun[edit]
月見里 • (Tsukimisato)
- a surname
References[edit]
- ^ “月見里は山梨の古名 (月見里 wa Yamanashi no Komei, “月見里 Is the Old Name for 山梨 [Yamanashi]”)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1] (in Japanese) (HTML), 山梨祭典委員会 (Yamanashi Saiten Iinkai, “Yamanashi Festivals Committee”), 2007 June 10, archived from the original on 5 November 2015
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