A Whale Maxillary Bone of the Fukami Shrine

Publications

• Hiraguchi, T., 1995, The archaeological sites with cetacean remains and the pre-modern records of taked or stranded cetaceans in the Noto district, Central Japan., Nihonkai Cetology 5：5-12. (In Japanese)

Photographs

The coast of Fukami, Monzen-mach, Ishikawa Prefecture.

There is the Sakura Falls in a gorge.of Fukami..
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Two small shrines behind the Fukami Shrine

A fall at the left side of the shrines. 　A fall at the right side of the shrines.

A wooden Buddhist image, maked in the Fujiwara period of the Heian, enshrined in a small shrine.

A right mandible of a whale and a stele of the later Muromachi period, enshrined in a rock shelter behaind the shrines.

Dorsal view of the whale mandible.




Inside view of the whale mandible.