飛騨神岡鉱山の近代化と地域の対応

抄録

Area of old mining pattern in the feudal age had been generally expanding in the progress of Japanese industrial revolution in Meiji era. In the process of its expanding, mining industry had variously to do with the village community which located on its expanding area.
Intending to research of these both relations in that process, I have inquired into Kamioka Mine the largest zinc and lead-mine in Japan, in Hida mountain district.
This mining pattern, in which many Yamashi's (mining managers) scattered here nnd there on the mountain-side, above 800 metres in height and worked silver, copper, and lead mines with old mining techniques during the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600∼1867), has been collectively modernized by the Mitsui plutocracy since 1886.
Since then, the Mitsui (mining manager) has concentrated, in the area of a small village community called Shikama-mura, the mills of ore dressing and smelting, and the quarters of mining management. In the process of this concentrating, the land utilization of Shikama-mura-paddy fields and upland fields on the river terrace, and the common forest-land of the community-has been completely changing into the mining land, ore dressing and smelting etc.
In these changes into the mining land, the Shikama-mura has firmly stood face to face with the Mitsui. The former had parted with all fields, but has been leaving the common forest-land lent to the latter. That is, through the common forest-land, the remains of the village community have been maintained to 1959.