Settlement name - Settlement name

... Humanistic place names are place names that are directly related to the wide variety of human activities. For example, they can be classified into various categories, such as pioneer place names, industrial place names, occupational place names, rice field system/grid names, market place names, transportation place names, surname place names, building place names, legend/literature place names, folk/religious place names, etc. The names of pioneer place names have changed over the years, such as konden (reclaimed land), shinkai (newly developed land), and shinden (new rice field), but some are named after pioneers or immigrants or the names of the indigenous peoples. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "settlement place names" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　人文地名は，人間の多岐多様な活動に直接かかわって命名された地名である。たとえば開拓地名，産業地名，職業地名，田制･条里地名，市場地名，交通地名，姓氏地名，建造物地名，説話･文芸地名，民俗･信仰地名等々，分け方によってさまざまに分類できる。開拓地名には墾田，新開，新田など時代的な変化もあるが，開拓者や移住者の名や先住地名をつけたものもある。…

※「開拓地名」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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