著者
矢嶋 澄策
出版者
Tokyo Geographical Society
雑誌
地学雑誌 (ISSN:0022135X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.72, no.4, pp.178-188, 1963-08-30 (Released:2009-11-12)
参考文献数
10
被引用文献数
1

Survey of old records concerning the publication on mercury provides a very useful means to trace exhausted and forgotten mercury mines and thus complete the gaps in the distribution of mercury are deposits in the Japanese segments of the Circum-Pacific metallogenetic zone.The discovery of a mercury mineral in 198 A. D. is described in “Shoku Nihonki”, the earliest literature referring to the Japanese mercury. The mining of the metal in record, however, dates as far back as the Asuka period (600 A. D.) and a peak production was once reached during the Heian period. In those early days, mercury was used principally for medicine, amalgam base for gold-gilding on Buddha statues, and ship paint. The mining was operated throughout Japan by the “Niu” tribe, an ethnic group which was once headed by “Niuzuhime” in Yoshino region and later spread out searching for new deposits. “Niu” means cinnabar and also red color in Chinese. For this reason, villages in former mercury-producing district often bear the name of Niu and have shrines called “Niu Jinja” which are dedicated to Niuzuhime.It is also reported in literature that the search for mercury was also conducted by “Yamabushi”, a group of itinerant buddhist priest who travelled around the country carrying the will of Kobo-daishi, the famous founder of their sect.Although the occurrence of mercury in “Hitachi” and “Dewa” districts was mentioned in ancient literature, no mercury deposits have been discovered geologically in recent years. The mercury contents of reddish clays from these localities, however, are high enough to be indicative of the presence of such are deposits.

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丹内山神社さんは蛭子館鉱山と近そうですね。 矢嶋澄策「日本水銀鉱床の史的考察」 https://t.co/nJ5S4LpPf4 https://t.co/R6eNewwSuH
@goshuinchou 高野山の水銀鉱床と真言宗の修験道の関係が書かれている論文です。少し古いですが、よろしければ。 「日本水銀鉱床の史的考察」 https://t.co/yN2pUuzyav
「鉱床の分布・配列は、地帯構造に左右され……わけても水銀鉱床は、世界的にみて著しい偏在性を示している……すなわち、環太平洋地域と、地中海・ヒマラヤ地域の二つの大きい造山地帯に、ほとんど集約的に配列している」(矢嶋澄策) https://t.co/e6AIFWLg1K https://t.co/s5CVPApnjV
@ootomo_saki 赤っぽい酸化鉄はどこにでもあります。 我々が探しても容易に見つかりません。 こういう文献見つけました。 https://t.co/cGVMCPgZYX
@Pants_shitagi 日本水銀鉱床の史的考察 PDF https://t.co/hjdGOppF29 面白かったです
#手箱山・浦島伝説 オオタビ伝説の安居川は仁淀川支流・土居川の小支流なんですが・・・土居って水銀鉱山(丹朱鉱山)もあるにはあるんですねぇ・・いつからのものかは不明ですが。 (33ページ第2図https://t.co/G3agCHaWdN)

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