Owari Plain - Owari Heiya

Japanese: 尾張平野 - おわりへいや

...The eastern part of Owari is connected to the Chita Peninsula, which is made up of Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits. The clay contained in the Seto clay layer and the Tokoname shale layer supports the ceramics industries of Seto and Tokoname. The Nobi Plain (Owari Plain) is the second largest plain in Japan after the Kanto Plain, with an area of about 1,800 km2. From the north, it is followed by the Kiso River alluvial fan with Inuyama at its apex, the natural levees, and the delta lowlands. The alluvial fan was once dominated by mulberry fields, but after the war it became dominated by livestock and vegetable farming. On the natural levees, you can see radishes in Miyashige, seedlings in Inazawa, and a chicken farm in Ukino, Ichinomiya City. In the delta lowlands, in addition to rice farming, lotus root cultivation and greenhouse horticulture are also popular. In all cases, intensive suburban agriculture has developed in the vicinity of the large consumer city of Nagoya.

From [Nobi Plain]

...It is bounded to the east by the Owari Hills and Owari Mountains, which continue southwest of the Mino-Mikawa Plateau, to the north by the Ryohaku Mountains, and to the west by the steep eastern slopes of the tilted Yoro and Ibuki Mountains, and to the south by Ise Bay. As Owari Province and Mino Province are separated by the Kiso River, the east is called the Owari Plain, and the west is called the Mino Plain or Seino Plain. The Neogene formations that make up the Owari Hills gently slope at an angle of 2 to 3 degrees southwest near Inuyama and west near Seto, and can be said to be a typical structural basin resulting from tilting movement with a low west and high east centered around Yatomi in Ama County.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Owari Plain" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…尾張の東部は鮮新･更新統からなる知多半島に続き，瀬戸陶土層，常滑ケツ岩層に多量に含まれる陶土は瀬戸，常滑の窯業地帯を支えている。濃尾平野(尾張平野)は面積約1800km2と関東平野に次ぐ日本で第2の平野であり，北から犬山を扇頂とした木曾川扇状地，自然堤防地帯，三角州低地と続く。扇状地ではかつては桑園一色であったのが，戦後畜産，野菜作中心に変わり，自然堤防上には宮重のダイコン，稲沢の苗木，一宮市浮野（うきの）の養鶏団地などがみられ，三角州低地では米作のほかにれんこん栽培，ハウス園芸などが盛んで，いずれにおいても名古屋という大消費地をひかえての集約的な近郊農業が展開してきている。…

【濃尾平野】より

…東は美濃三河高原の南西につづく尾張丘陵と尾張山地，北は両白山地，西は傾動状地塊の養老･伊吹両山地の東側急斜面によって限られ，南は伊勢湾に臨む。木曾川をはさんで尾張国と美濃国に分かれるため，東を尾張平野，西を美濃平野または西濃平野ともよぶ。尾張丘陵をつくる新第三系は犬山付近では南西方へ，瀬戸付近では西方へ2～3度以下の角度で緩やかに傾斜しており，海部（あま）郡弥富付近を中心とした西低東高の傾動運動の結果生じた典型的な構造盆地といえる。…

※「尾張平野」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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