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English
Etymology
From Japanese[1] 清川 (seisen).
Proper noun
Seisen
- (historical, in reference to Japanese Korea) Synonym of Chongchon: the Japanese-derived name
1921, “Asia”, in World Atlas of Commercial Geology, volume II, Washington, D. C.: United States Geological Survey, →OCLC, page 30, column 3:Chosen (Korea) is mountainous and has abundant rainfall and great power resources. An American gold-mining company has a plant of 800 horsepower on a branch of Seisen River and has recently installed a plant of 1,600 horsepower on Kuron River, in northern Chosen.
1945 August 11, “U. S. War Roundup”, in Army Navy Journal, volume LXXXII, number 51, Whole No. 3283, Washington, D. C., →OCLC, page 1505, column 4:Privateers of Fleet Air Wing One on 31 July blew up a span of a large railway bridge near the mouth of the Seisen River in Northwest Korea, damaged another railway bridge and two trains and strafed a cannery, grading machinery at an airfield, and small craft along the coast in this area.
1962, Robert H. Ivy, “Westward to the Far East”, in A Link with the Past, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 17–18:At Chinnampo, the mining company’s steam launch, with an old American salt named Captain Barstow, was waiting to take us 75 miles farther north to Anju, the old town on the Seisen River, mentioned many times in the newspapers during the late war.
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chongchon River”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 404, column 2: “Jap. Seisen-ko”