48 AKT. 'S. — B. KOTÙ : 



A 



Tokyo, u distance of 1,000 km. from the vent ; m Osaka on the 

 Oth. Patches of pumice were even seen floating on the shore of 

 Inaba, Hoki, Tajima, and Tamba in the Japan Sea. 



h) The Five New Islands.^^ In consequence of the eruption 

 of the An-ei era, many islands made their appearance within a 

 year. During the eruption Sakura-jima was entirely enveloped in 

 dust smoke and cloud. When the air cleared the island came 

 into sight, five days after the ever -memorable outburst of the 

 1779 8th of November, 1779. After a few days (November 

 11th or 12th) from the bottom'^ of the sea off the northeast shore 

 of Sakura-jima imearthly sounds issued, like bellowing, accompanied 

 with seething and broiling of the sea, ejecting of stones, pumice 

 and mud (fine pumice splinters), resulting in the creation of 

 shallow banks and small islands, which constantly changed their 

 forms and positions. At first, fountains of yellowish mud rose to 

 a height of 30 to 40 feet, which fell l^ack and flooded^^ villages 

 on the shore of Sakura-jima and the adjoining lands of Kagoshima 

 Bay. The islands so formed became finally fixed. They are the 

 following (see Fig. 11) : 



iNOKo-jntA jVo. 1 Avas created ou November 21st, 1779, near the 



(Nos. 1 AND 



2) I77'j shore, ouly 327 m. (3 cJ/o) from the coast of the village 



Komeu (Mnkomeii)/^ Its diameter was about 100 in., but height only 



1) As mucli doubt M-as cast itpou the origin of the new-born islands, the writer in April, 

 1914, made a short visit to the islets and rocks in order to collect rock-specimens and also to 

 study their structure. 



2) Said to have been 70 fathoms deep in 1779, and this will by no means appear an 

 exaggeration if .inyone examines modern charts. 



3) People call this tsunami or shiwo-ogê (-i^JJ fg f] signifying sea-wave or tidal -waxe. 



4) It is to be remarked that the distances and directions mentioned in Chiri-Sankô are not 

 entirely intelligible to the reader v,ho takes up a modern map for reference. The writer thinks 

 this is solely due to the fact that the once large -village of JMukômen along the coastal ])lain 

 jierished under lava-flows. The buried part, as villagers told the writer, stretches between the 

 l^resent Urano-mayc and Kômen, which space is now covered with (•()nfused masses of block- 

 lava, as indicated in figure 11. 



