The Katori Sea ( 香取海 , Katori Umi ) refers to the vanished inland sea formerly located in the eastern part of the ancient Kantō Plain connected to the Pacific Ocean , between the prefectures of Ibaraki and Chiba in Japan.
8-548: Katori can refer to: Places [ edit ] Katori Sea , was an inland sea in Japan Katori, Chiba , a city in Japan Katori District, Chiba Katori Shrine Katori Station , junction passenger railway station People [ edit ] Katori Masaru , author Hidetoshi Katori , physicist Shingo Katori , actor, singer, member of
16-674: A training ship commissioned in 1969 and withdrawn in 1998 Other [ edit ] Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū , a Japanese martial art named after the Katori Shrine See also [ edit ] Katora , a village in Madhya Pradesh, India Katora, Punjab , a village in Punjab, India Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
24-706: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Katori Sea In the Jōmon period part of the Kantō Plain was covered by the sea, due to the Holocene glacial retreat , which peaked about 6,000 years ago. After thousands of years the land rose and the sea receded, and in the Yayoi period and the Kofun period much of the area was covered by wetlands, lakes and lagoons. Over
32-503: The Japanese idol group SMAP Ships [ edit ] Japanese ship Katori Japanese battleship Katori , a battleship launched in 1905 and scrapped in 1924 Katori Maru , an ocean liner and troop ship completed in 1913 and sunk in 1941 Katori Maru , a cargo ship launched in 1938 and sunk in 1945 Japanese cruiser Katori , a cruiser launched in 1939 and sunk in 1944 JMSDF Katori (TV-3501) ,
40-807: The Katori. Later the Lake Kasumigaura was formed from the remains of the inland sea. During the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Edo period , because of the food situation in Edo City, the recovery and development of the flooded lands and the sea became necessary, so the Tone River project was carried out. The Tone River originally discharged into the Tokyo Bay, but was diverted to flow into
48-524: The Pacific Ocean (Kashima-nada); the courses of the rivers in this area were adequate to channel any overflow and avoid large floods. Lake Katori disappeared, and the desalination began of the lakes and lagoons that it left behind. The project encouraged canal farming, and irrigation was actively developed. The remains of the inland sea are present in the Nishiura, Kitaura and Sotonasakaura lakes of
56-474: The centuries the sea decreased in size, a further cause of which was the deposition of volcanic ash from the nearby mountains and around Kantō. The volcanic ash fell in great quantity, and was also carried by the wind, by the rain, spilled into the rivers, from where it reached the Katori Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Additionally the sediments and rocks that flowed in the rivers influenced the decrease in size of
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