Maki [village] - Maki

Japanese: 牧[村] - まき

A village in Higashikubiki County in southern Niigata Prefecture. Population 3,294 (1995). It is located on the western edge of the Higashikubiki Hills, and borders Nagano Prefecture to the southeast. The Iida River, a tributary of the Hokura River, flows through the center of the village, and most of the cultivated land is rice terraces on the mountainside. In Tanahiro, upstream of the Iida River, is the Maki Oil Field, one of the old oil fields of Echigo, and at the end of the Meiji period, the village was a bustling oil-producing area. Agriculture has been centered on rice cultivation since the early modern period, but since the 1960s, attempts have been made to diversify, such as fattening Japanese beef cattle in the hills and growing tobacco. Many people commute to the neighboring city of Joetsu.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

新潟県南部，東頸城（ひがしくびき）郡の村。人口3294(1995)。東頸城丘陵の西端にあり，南東部は長野県に接する。村の中央を保倉川の支流飯田川が流れ，耕地の大部分は山腹の棚田である。飯田川上流の棚広には越後古油田の一つ牧油田があり，明治末には産油地として活気を呈していた。農業は近世以来米作を中心としていたが，昭和40年代以降，丘陵地での和牛肥育，タバコ栽培など多角化が試みられている。隣接する上越市への通勤者が多い。

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