Shirakami mountain range is a with an altitude [ over Akita
Prefecture from Aomori Prefecture / 1000-1200m ] mountain range, and gross areas
are about 130,000 ha(s). primeval [ of these ] -- the zone of beech forest
16971ha [-like ] was registered as world heritage in 1993.
The storehouse of food
People called MATAGI
It was the Jomon period of about 8000 years ago that beech woods were made in
Shirakami mountain range. Those who live in the beech woods here had hunted the
animal (INOSHIKA antelope) which asks for nuts.
MATAGI is those who do work which mainly catches the Asian black bear, an
antelope, etc. Now, it does not carry out now [ not many deer ].
