In order to grasp the characters of migration in the mountain villages, on the north side of the Sanuki Mountains, the author has investigated 1932 cases of migration due to marriages registered to village offices in 1949. The character may, be classified as follows:
(1) The number of emigrants is larger than that of immigrants, and the migrations within the circles of native villages are the smallest in number.
(2) The migrations within native villages are characteristic to the villagers situated in the cntral part, having large areas lacking in facilities of communication. (3) The migrations take place in most of the cases within Sanuki Province, and in these cases the emigrants out of the villages are greater in number than the immigrants into the villages. And the migrations are chiefly directed to the north from the south. As for the sphere of intermarrage, that of matrimonial emigration is larger than that of matrimonial immigration and both of them are definitely limited to near places because of the restriction of distance. As distance becomes greater, the number of migrants becomes smaller, the graphs of which form the shape of “L.” The limit of the distance is about 5km. (4) In case of migrations taking place between Sanuki and other provinces, immigrants are more numerous than emigrants, the direction pointing chiefly to the north from the south. The circle of intermarriage covers the eastern part of the Seto Inland-Sea with three adjoining provinces as its center. (5) Judjing from the comparison of population, the localities of intermarriage are to be arranged in the following order according to their weights; the first, within native villages; the second, within the province; and the third., between provinces. (6) The range of the ages of the migrants is wide, and the age of 23 years forms the peak in the number of migrations and that of over 28 years is far below. When refered only to men, the peak in number appears in a little higher age, shoeing little variation according to the difference in ages. The differences among villages are very complicated. (7) The years in which the migrations took place range widely and the number reached the highest peak in 1948, which shows the fact that the frequency and number of migrations increase as it comes up to the present time, while the peak in the number of divorces was recorded in the year of 1949 according to their registrations. The differences in number between sex are almost neglegiable, but those among villages are great. To mention monthly frequencies and numbers, we can see many migrations in 1, 2, 4, 5, 10 and 12, and few in 3, 6, 7, 8 and 11. It is clear that the migrations have a close connection with seasons. But if we consider the migration only in regard to divorce, we can notice little differences among months, and I have also found that the migration has little differences in number in terms of sex as well as villages.
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