diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c4ec1381f1..47dac08bf1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Sep 22 00:00:05 2010  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* ext/pathname/pathname.c (path_f_pathname): Pathname() translated
+	  from pathname.rb.
+
 Tue Sep 21 22:18:30 2010  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* tool/mkconfig.rb: fixed build problem on mswin64 introduced in r29278.
diff --git a/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb b/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
index f6e06f2092..224c869f67 100644
--- a/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
+++ b/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
@@ -525,13 +525,3 @@ class Pathname    # * FileUtils *
   end
 end
 
-
-module Kernel
-  # create a pathname object.
-  #
-  # This method is available since 1.8.5.
-  def Pathname(path) # :doc:
-    Pathname.new(path)
-  end
-  private :Pathname
-end
diff --git a/ext/pathname/pathname.c b/ext/pathname/pathname.c
index b3fe3af9ca..74efc996dc 100644
--- a/ext/pathname/pathname.c
+++ b/ext/pathname/pathname.c
@@ -961,6 +961,17 @@ path_unlink(VALUE self)
     return rb_rescue2(unlink_body, str, unlink_rescue, str, eENOTDIR, (VALUE)0);
 }
 
+/*
+ * create a pathname object.
+ *
+ * This method is available since 1.8.5.
+ */
+static VALUE
+path_f_pathname(VALUE self, VALUE str)
+{
+    return rb_class_new_instance(1, &str, rb_cPathname);
+}
+
 /*
  * == Pathname
  *
@@ -1225,4 +1236,5 @@ Init_pathname()
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "unlink", path_unlink, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "delete", path_unlink, 0);
     rb_undef_method(rb_cPathname, "=~");
+    rb_define_global_function("Pathname", path_f_pathname, 1);
 }