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[O08-P01] Proprieties of origins about place names coming from disasters and method of selecting representative landforms of areas
Keywords:place name, disaster, landforms of areas, Hazard map
There are various reasons that place names were determined. Some places seem to derived from disasters (“Disaster place names”), others from landforms. Now, it is difficult to distinguish them. Furthermore, the origins of the disaster place names are mostly unclear, such as the character of “USI (cow)” being seem to mean “USI (suffering in the ancient form)” based on their pronunciations. For these reasons, I validate the proprieties of the origins. I examined characteristics of disaster risk and landforms each Chinese characters having been used in the disaster place names. This study analyzed place names of small areas remaining original landforms since Meiji period. Additionally, I developed a method to sample landforms representing areas based on Landform classification map. As a result, “SUGA (sedge)”, “WA (harmony)”, “TA (rice field)”, “HUKURO (bag)” etc. mean disasters, while “KAWA (river)”, “SHIMA (island)”, “NUMA (marsh)”, “TANI (valley)”, etc. mean disasters and landforms. In fieldwork, the sampled landforms were confirmed to represent well the characteristic of the areas’ landforms.