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The Yamagata Kyôdo Kenkyû-kai (Society for Geographical Reserach of Yamagata Prefecture) has collected about 40, 000 place names in its prefecture, each of which beside the Chinese letters, are printed in the Japanese syllabary to give their correct pronoun-ciations.
It is explained that the number of places having names relating to rice field forms 10 percent of the total, followed by names relating to plants, fields, beasts, and geographical features after which come those of castle, buddhist temple and various graves.
The use in names of the old distributions of pasture, deccangrass (Hi-e in Japanese, ) formerly the chief crop in this region, Sanka (a kind of vagapond in the past) and many other points that are very interesting from the historical point of view, are also explained by this study.
