- 著者
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鏡味 完二
- 出版者
- 日本地理教育学会
- 雑誌
- 新地理 (ISSN:05598362)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.2, no.4, pp.39-48, 1954
“Hinokuni” is the old name of Japan. “Hi” meaning the sun and “kuni” means country. “Japan” is the name that the foreigners “Nippon”: Nip=HI=Sun, pon=origin, and so Nippon denoets “the sun rising country”. Therefore Hinokuni, Nippon, and Japan have the same meaming.<br>Settlement of Japan begun from Izumo and northern kyushu in the ancient times by rice culture peoples, after which Yamato became civilized.<br>The author discoveved a series of these place-names in these ancient civilized district Namely they are as follows.<br>Taale I<br>The most conspicuous fact is that the place-name of Yamato can be found in all the civilized regions of ancient Japan listed above. But “Yamato” was interpreted untill now a smeaning “the placewhich mountains lie” because it seemed to be so only by the linguistic analogy; Yama=mountain, to=place. The author has found ita reasonable explanaton through the Malay word Yamtuan=King, Sovereign.