Ogatsu Slate - Ogatsu Slate

...There are fishing ports such as Watanoha and Oginohama (both in Ishinomaki City), Onagawa and Ayukawa (Oshika Town), and offshore fishing is carried out in the fishing grounds off Kinkazan where the Kuroshio Current and Oyashio Current meet. In addition, small coastal fishing villages mainly use small-scale set nets for sand eels, bait sardines, horse mackerel, and mackerel, as well as for seaweed and oyster farming in the inland bay, and for seaweed fishing on the open ocean side. Black slate is a local specialty, and is quarried in the northern part of the peninsula. Inai slate is used for stone monuments, Onagawa slate for stone slabs and roofing materials, and Ogatsu slate from Ogatsu Town north of Onagawa is famous for being used to make inkstones. The area from the Oshika Peninsula to Kinkazan is designated as Minamisanriku Kinkazan Quasi-National Park.

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Ogatsu Slate" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…渡波（わたのは）･荻浜(ともに石巻市)，女川･鮎川(牡鹿町)などの漁港があり，黒潮･親潮の交わる金華山沖漁場を背景に沖合漁業が行われるほか，沿岸の小漁村では，いずれもイカナゴ，餌イワシ，アジ，サバなどの小規模な建網や，内湾でのノリ，カキの養殖，外洋側での磯物漁業が主となっている。この地方の特産として半島北部で黒色粘板岩が採掘され，稲井スレートは石碑に，女川スレートは石板や屋根材に用いられ，女川北方の雄勝（おかつ）町の雄勝スレートは硯（すずり）の加工で名高い。牡鹿半島から金華山にかけては南三陸金華山国定公園に指定されている。…

※「雄勝スレート」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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