It is also said that when her head sank it sounded 'Tsufu, tsufu' and so the island was named 'Tsufushitsu Island', or it was named 'Chikubushima Island' because the first grown plants there were bamboos (their Chinese character is read 'chiku').
一説には首が沈む時に「都布都布（つふつふ）」という音がしたので「都布失島」という名前になったとも、最初に生えたのが竹であったことから「竹生島」という名前になったともいう。