Okozu Salt Works

Okozu Salt Works (岡津製塩遺跡, Okozu seien iseki) is the location of a salt production site located in what is now part of the city of Obama, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1979.[1]

Okozu Salt Works
岡津製塩遺跡
Okozu Salt Works
Okozu Salt Works
Okozu Salt Works (Japan)
LocationObama, Fukui, Japan
RegionHokuriku region
Coordinates35°28′54″N 135°39′20″E
History
Founded3rd to 4th century AD
PeriodsKofun period to Nara period
Site notes
OwnershipNational Historic Site
Public accessYes

Overview

The Okozu site is located in the inner area of Obama Bay, approximately seven kilometers the west of the modern city centre. Ancient Wakasa Province was noted for its supply of seafood and salt to the Yamato court. Per an excavation conducted by the Obama CityBoard of Education in 1973, the remains of nine cobblestone-lined salt-making furnaces were discovered. The earliest was estimated to date to at least the Kofun period. Five of the furnaces contained salt-production pottery vessel fragments dated to the 8th century, and had a length of four to five meters and a width of two to four meters. Remnants of charcoal were found within the spaces between the cobblestones. The remaining four furnaces appear to be of an earlier type, from the end of the 7th century to the early 8th century. To the west of the furnace group is a large hardened surface measuring 30 meters by 10 meters, of unknown purpose. The surface is the result of layers of red soil with a thickness of three to ten centimetres having been fired repeatedly over many centuries. To the west of this surface is the old coastline, with many fragments of burned gravel, which appears to be waste from the furnaces.

Wooden tags found at Fujiwara-kyō and Heijō-kyō indicate that salt from Wakasa was being sent to the Yamato area from the Asuka period. The site is now a historical park.

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See also

References
  1. "岡津製塩遺跡" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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