Tango Mountains - Tangosanchi

Japanese: 丹後山地 - たんごさんち
Tango Mountains - Tangosanchi

A mountain range that stretches from northwest Kyoto to northeast Hyogo. Its main peak is Mt. Oe (832 meters). It borders the Tamba Highlands to the east by the Yura River, and the Tajima Mountains to the west by the Maruyama River. Like the Tamba Highlands, it is a mountain range of dissected elevated peneplains, but unlike the Tamba Highlands, which are mainly made up of Paleozoic strata, the Tango Mountains are based on granite, with Tertiary strata and andesite and rhyolite that flowed in the Tertiary period widely distributed. It is divided into many small land masses at an altitude of 400 to 600 meters by small faults running vertically and horizontally. The Tango Peninsula is a land mass that protrudes northeastward into the Sea of ​​Japan, and in the south there is the Oe Mountains massif that rises east-west. There is little flat land and a lot of snowfall, so agriculture is generally sluggish and depopulation is severe. The Tango Chirimen textile industry was once a thriving side job for farmers, but is now stagnant.

[Takeo Oda]

[Reference] | Tango Chirimen

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

京都府北西部から兵庫県北東部にまたがる山地。大江山(832メートル)を主峰とする。東の丹波(たんば)高地とは由良(ゆら)川、西の但馬(たじま)山地とは円山(まるやま)川で境する。丹波高地と同じように開析された隆起準平原の山地であるが、古生層を主とする丹波高地と異なって、丹後山地は花崗(かこう)岩を基盤に、第三紀層や第三紀に流出した安山岩や流紋岩が広く分布している。高度は400~600メートル、縦横に走る小断層によって多くの小地塊に分かれる。なかでも丹後半島は日本海に北東方向に突出した地塊であり、また、南部には東西方向に隆起した大江山地塊がある。平地に乏しく、積雪が多いので、農業は一般に不振で過疎化も著しい。農家の副業として丹後縮緬(ちりめん)機業が盛んであったが現在は停滞している。

[織田武雄]

[参照項目] | 丹後縮緬

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