Mount Gagyu (Niigata) - Gagyusan

...Murakami, the center of the city, flourished as a castle town from the Middle Ages through the early modern period, and remnants of the castle town can be seen in such things as key-shaped roads. The stone walls of the mountain castle ruins remain on Gagyuyama (135m) to the east of the city. With the encouragement and protection of the domain, production of Murakami lacquer increased from the late Edo period, and specialty products such as Murakami tea, known as the northernmost commercially cultivated area, and salmon from the Miomote River were born. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Gayuzan (Niigata)" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中心の村上は中世から近世を通じ城下町として栄え，鍵形の道路など城下町のなごりがみられる。市街地東の臥牛（がぎゆう）山(135m)には山城跡の石垣が残る。藩の奨励と保護により，江戸後期から村上堆朱（ついしゆ）の生産が増加し，また商業的栽培地としては北限として知られる村上茶や三面川のサケなどの特産が生まれた。…

※「臥牛山（新潟）」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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