Arita mandarin oranges - Arita mandarin oranges

Japanese: 有田ミカン - ありだみかん

…Since early modern times, mandarin oranges have been cultivated in the mountainous areas to the north and south of the Arida River basin. Encouraged by the feudal domain, they flourished and were shipped to Edo as Arita mandarins. Minoshima and Kitaminato prospered as shipping ports. Even today, most of the cultivated land in the city is mandarin orange orchards. …

From the Arida River

...In 1966, the Futagawa Dam was built upstream as a multipurpose dam, and is used for disaster prevention and irrigation. Since early modern times, Arita mandarins have been cultivated at the foot of the mountain, but since 1960, the floodplain rice fields have been converted, and more than 80% of the total cultivated land in the basin is now mandarin orchards. For a long time, the central city of the basin was Yuasa Town to the south, but as modern factories have moved into Arita City at the river's mouth, banks and government offices have gradually moved there, and Arita City is becoming the central city. ...

From Wakayama Prefecture

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[Outer edge of Keihanshin]
The story of Kinokuniya Bunzaemon, who transported mandarin oranges to Edo (present-day Tokyo), is well known, but since the Edo period, maritime traffic has generally transported soy sauce, vinegar, and other products to the Edo market, and Kishu mandarin oranges have been supported by a strong connection with the Osaka market. Currently, the production of mandarin oranges from the prefecture known as Arita mandarins (1995) is second only to Ehime Prefecture, but it is in a difficult situation due to falling prices caused by overproduction and the liberalization of orange imports. The construction of National Route 42, which circles the Kii Peninsula, in 1965 and the opening of the Hanwa Expressway in 1974 further strengthened Wakayama's ties with the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe region.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Arita mikan" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…近世以来，有田川流域の南北の山地にミカンが栽培された。藩の奨励で盛んとなり有田ミカンとして江戸へも出荷され，その積出港として箕島，北湊は栄えてきた。現在も市内の総耕地の大部分がミカン園である。…

【有田川】より

…66年には上流に二川（ふたがわ）ダムが多目的ダムとして築かれ，防災･灌漑用に利用されている。近世以来，山麓では有田ミカンが栽培されてきたが，1960年以降ははんらん原の水田も転用され，流域の総耕地の8割以上がミカン園である。流域の中心都市は長い間南隣の湯浅町であったが，河口の有田市に近代工場が進出するにつれ，しだいに銀行，官庁が移動して有田市が中心都市になりつつある。…

【和歌山[県]】より

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［京阪神の外縁部］
　江戸に船でミカンを運んだという紀伊国屋文左衛門の話は有名であるが，一般的に江戸時代以来の海上交通では，しょうゆ，酢などが江戸の市場に運ばれ，紀州のミカンは，大坂市場との強力な結びつきに支えられてきた。現在，有田ミカンの名で知られる県のミカンの生産量(1995)は愛媛県に次いで全国第2位であるが，過剰生産による価格の下落と輸入オレンジの自由化問題によって苦境に立たされている。1965年の紀伊半島を一周する国道42号線の整備，74年の阪和高速道路の開通によって和歌山県はいっそう京阪神との結びつきを強めた。…

※「有田ミカン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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