334 B' KOTO: CAUSE OF THE GREAT 



village there i.s an artiticially coiiJitracted pond of considerable size, 

 for irrio-atin"* neiirhbourinu' ijaddv- fields. It was fed bv a small 

 stream from the north with its outlet on the south, Ijut the line of 

 fault f'-oin"- rid-ht throuu'h the middle of it in the east-west direction, 

 its northern half together with the neiglibomàng fields of 17,851 

 square metres (1 clid <S tan) subsided, and was also shoved 

 a little to the north-west. The result of this vertical as well as 

 horizontal movement of the north side ^vas that the outward 

 passage at the south end of the pond lies now on the higher level. 

 The quantity of water remains nearly the same as before, and the 

 deserted ].>ond is still fed from the entry passage on the north, so 

 that it is pr(jbable that the water s(jaks away through the new 

 fissure as fist as the small current enters the pond through the 

 channel. 



The line now runs, through Taromaru. a few steps southwards 

 alonf»" the newly macadamized road that connects Seki and Takatomi. 

 One could easily recognize the fault as such by a slight difference in 

 the level of a perfectly even field, the north side being a little 

 the lower. About five hundred steps east of Takatomi, it crosses 

 the road (jbliquely at Mori, and the north side became again the 

 lower by 1 .5 metres and at the same time was horizontally shoved 

 about 1 metre westwards. Takatomi is a tolerably large village, with 

 a population of 1,7-lG, lying north of Gifu, and I saw in no other place 

 within the devastated region such a complete destruction of buildings 

 as occurred here. All Avas shattered and levelled with the gromid. 

 About 87 persons were killed and 158 wounded. At the north end 

 of the village the fault appears in d(3uble lines (see the accompanying 

 sketch map), along which the ground had been shifted horizontally, and 

 also become continuously lower towards the north, so that a once 

 even paddy-field now f )rms a good natural slope. 



