EARTHQUAKE OF CENTRAL JAPAN, 1891, 



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Where tlic vertical clisplucement is liot considerable, the line of the 

 fiiult a])]}ears on the surface like a rounded ridg-e of soft earth 80 to 60 

 cm. high and. as I liave already stated, re.'^emhles venj iiuicli tlw patli- 

 nriji of a (jitjantic mole (PI. XXXA".). 



In tracing the course of the ,gi-eat fiult (indicated ])v the heavy 

 line, ri. XXIX.), I l)egin witli what I suppose to he the south end.* 

 In Xishi-katabira, a small village amidst hills of a grevisli Tertiary 

 sandstone, in the district of Kani, ]\Iino province, there is a place 

 locally called Kozé. Here, upon the slope of a s|)ur of hill, stood the old 

 monastery of Fidvudenji. The hill together with the entire buildin"- 

 slipped down int(i the paddy-field which in turn was broken into 

 clods of earth, and swelled u]) 5 metres high. FoUowino' the 

 direction of this remarkable landslip towards the north-west, the 

 paddy-field was seen sharply cut by a line, along which the nortli-eaM >tide ' 

 lia I sh'fjIitJii i^iilixidi'l, mil hail moveorer lieeii !^]ufteil horizontaUij towanU 

 the )inrt]i-iresf for a di>itonce of 1 to 1.2 melre.^. That besides the 



yertical move- 

 ment an actual 

 horizontal shift- 

 ing had taken 

 j)lace is proved by 

 the fact that the 

 originally straight 

 mound or ridsfe 

 called Azé which 

 •p separated neigh- 

 bouring fields, was 



* Oa close examination in the fiekl, especiallj' at a))Out Kukuri, Ikeda, and Taka- 

 yama, I was not a])le to find any trace of the fault, which may ))e looked upon as the prolonga- 

 tion of the main lino of dislocation. 



