月見里
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 月 | 見 | 里 |
| Grade: 1 | Grade: 1 | Grade: 2 |
| irregular | ||
Etymology
Unknown. The kanji spelling appears to be ateji, which would normally be read as tsukimizato (“moon-view 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／月見里郷
- miyako o ba ／ ima wa haruka ni ／ tōtōmi ／／ tsuki no kuma naki ／ yamanashi no sato
- Leaving the city now far behind; the distant shallows // Yamanashi village, with nothing to shade the moon
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
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References
- Japanese terms spelled with 月
- Japanese terms spelled with 見
- Japanese terms spelled with 里
- Japanese terms read with irregular kanji readings
- Japanese terms with usage examples
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji