diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9f47be87dc..7e7d47ee00 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Aug  8 13:20:57 2010  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* ext/pathname/pathname.c (path_ftype): Pathname#ftype translated
+	  from pathname.rb.
+
 Sun Aug  8 12:41:19 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* parse.y (parser_tokadd_escape): no similar messages twice.
diff --git a/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb b/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
index d2373ebdb1..d2d3d8ac21 100644
--- a/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
+++ b/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
@@ -512,10 +512,6 @@ end
 
 class Pathname    # * File *
 
-  # See <tt>File.ftype</tt>.  Returns "type" of file ("file", "directory",
-  # etc).
-  def ftype() File.ftype(@path) end
-
   # See <tt>File.link</tt>.  Creates a hard link.
   def make_link(old) File.link(old, @path) end
 
diff --git a/ext/pathname/pathname.c b/ext/pathname/pathname.c
index 81b6d23e6d..4ed17f4efd 100644
--- a/ext/pathname/pathname.c
+++ b/ext/pathname/pathname.c
@@ -314,6 +314,16 @@ path_fnmatch(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
         return rb_funcall(rb_cFile, rb_intern("fnmatch"), 3, pattern, str, flags);
 }
 
+/*
+ * See <tt>File.ftype</tt>.  Returns "type" of file ("file", "directory",
+ * etc).
+ */
+static VALUE
+path_ftype(VALUE self)
+{
+    return rb_funcall(rb_cFile, rb_intern("ftype"), 1, get_strpath(self));
+}
+
 /*
  * == Pathname
  *
@@ -523,4 +533,5 @@ Init_pathname()
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "lchown", path_lchown, 2);
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "fnmatch", path_fnmatch, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "fnmatch?", path_fnmatch, -1);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "ftype", path_ftype, 0);
 }