Uonuki Village

...Located at the southern tip of Amakusa Shimoshima in Kumamoto Prefecture, this is the prefecture's leading fishing town with a good port on the ria coast. In 1954, Ushibuka Town was incorporated into a city by the merger of the four villages of Fukami, Oniki, Kudama, and Futaura. Population: 20,097 (1995). The Jomon and Yayoi ruins in Amatsuke show that people lived there from early on. One of the five Amakusa leaders of the Middle Ages, the Kudama clan, built Kudama Castle (a sea castle), and with the rise of trade with southern Europeans and the shipping industry, Ushibuka Port flourished as a stopover port on the way to Nagasaki, Satsuma, and Ryukyu. At the beginning of the Edo period, Ushibuka, and later Kudama, became one of the Amakusa fixed ports, and fishing began there, first for bonito fishing, and from the late Meiji period onwards for sardine fishing. ...

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…熊本県天草下島の南端にあり，リアス海岸の良港をもつ県下一の水産都市。1954年牛深町と深海（ふかみ），魚貫（おにき），久玉，二浦の4村が合体，市制。人口2万0097(1995)。天附（あまつけ）の縄文･弥生遺跡は早くから人が住みついたことを物語る。中世天草五人衆の一人久玉氏が久玉城(海城)を構築，その後南蛮貿易，海運業の隆盛に伴い，長崎，薩摩，琉球への中継寄港地として牛深港が栄えた。江戸時代の初め牛深，後には久玉も天草定浦（じよううら）の一つとなって漁業がおこり，初めはカツオ漁，明治後期以降はイワシ漁で知られた。…

※「魚貫村」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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