Japanese

Proper noun

鴨川 ‎(hiragana かもがわ, romaji Kamogawa, historical hiragana かもがは)

1. a city (市 ‎(shi)) in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on the southeast of the Bōsō Peninsula; developed as a fishing village in the early Edo period, later becoming a seaside resort town
2. the Kamo River in Kyōto Prefecture, Japan, a tributary of the 淀川 ‎(Yodogawa, “Yodo River”)
3. traditionally, the Kamo River downstream from the point of confluence with the Takano River (高野川, Takanogawa), with the upstream portion spelled either 賀茂川 or 加茂川 (both read as Kamogawa)

   The official spelling of the river name, both upstream and downstream, was unified as 鴨川 by a legal change in 1964. The use of 鴨 may be ateji, however, as initial mentions of the river used the 賀茂川 spelling, and the surrounding area was controlled by the 賀茂 ‎(Kamo) clan.

Synonyms

• (city in Chiba Prefecture): 鴨川市 ‎(かもがわし, Kamogawa-shi)
• (upstream portion of river in Kyōto): 賀茂川, 加茂川 ‎(かもがわ, Kamogawa)

External links

• (Chiba): 鴨川市 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• (Chiba): Kamogawa, Chiba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (Kyōto): 鴨川_(淀川水系) on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• (Kyōto): Kamo River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia