- Other Names: 鬼界ヶ島 (Kikaigashima)
- Japanese: 硫黄島 (Iôshima)
Iôshima (lit. "sulfur island") is a small island in Kagoshima prefecture, located to the south of the Satsuma peninsula, and north of Kuchinoerabu Island and Yakushima.
It is also sometimes known as Kikaigashima, and some accounts reckon that it was here, and not on the other nearby island by that name, that the monk Shunkan was exiled in 1177.[1]
Iôshima is not to be confused with the similarly-named Iô Torishima in the Amami Islands, nor with the remote Iwo Jima far to the east, and famous for the World War II battle which took place there.
References
- ↑ Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Megumi, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô 31 (2006), 230.