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「如此星」

okanciguess
Okanci is independently documented as a ship’s rudder. Its only corpus match has that sense. The source uses ヲガンヂ beside a star diagram, so a rudder-shaped star group is a plausible comparison. The commentary has the longer ヲカンチリコブ, and Fukasawa cites a later okanci nociw identification; those tails are absent here. Nojiri presents the rudder interpretation tentatively. The exact constellation and derivation remain unresolved; no rikop or nociw is added to the selected reading.
Batchelor 1938 s.v. Okanchi「n. A ship’s rudder.」, PDF p.349; NINJAL 057#67; Fukasawa 2016 p.71; Nojiri 1941 (下) p.286; Hirayama 2013 part 3 s.v. オガンジ「① 如此星(三ツ星と群れになった星)(※オリオン座か);②」Source passage
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  1. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 22, line 4 · ヲガンヂ

    …ナウリノカヽ大白星ニシヤツシヤヲチ宵の明星キンマチスルグル如此星ヲガンヂ如此星イルムンブ火星ホデレケレリコプ如此星イカラカモイヽ塵(チリ)パシナ埃(ホコリ)パナ地震重出…