A Matagi has the technology and organization which capture the large beast such as the bear and speak of the person who makes a hunting an occupation and came. Even the middle there was many villages of a Matagi to Sennboku and Ani district of Akita Pref. Staying overnight at the easy hunting hut where they established in the place where does group hunting such as bear hunting with good and enter into the mountain from the late autumn through early spring and become a position I caught the large beast such as the bear, serow. Besides even that goes to the mountain of the territory foreign country, as, the trip Matagi at one time was many. Even the example that enters to foster child etc. in the destination and handed down the technology of the Matagi to the land is not few. "Magnificent Mother Nature--the herd of the man that does not permit compromise here is. Subject--Matagi of orphan high that lives to the rule of the solemn religious commandments and Mother Nature Vast Ouu Mountains where rushes in the middle, backbone state of the northeastern provinces It comes and goes alternately, without being mistaken It is also the ground of the paradise where fosters various animals therefore. There was group ゛ of the ゛ hunter that is deep push through it in quest of the bear palm the crease of the mountain chain. Deed called ゛ that hunts ゛ was put by the man from the old days in the ancient times, It was one of the instinct that becomes important. The group of ゛ instinct ゛ of this heroic man was called the Matagi. " ("Matagi" Yaguchi Kaohsiung author, cotyledons company from)

Symbol Mount Moriyoshi (1454 m) of the village of the Matagi. Ani matagi was prosperous in the old large Ani village of the hinterland where it was enclosed in Ouu Mountains and Dewa hill	The Matagi crowd in the Taisho Era. The old large Ani village which the Matagi of the several hundreds person was crowding until the prewar days.I was making a tour to the mountain of Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano. Ani-machi breaks out in the hinterland of the mountain and also mountain where are shut 5 months in 1 year to deep snow and was isolated with external world and have been inherited.
Encloses the Matagi community, there is overwhelmingly many virgin forests of a beech tree and there are overwhelmingly many names of the beech tree woods, monkey warehouse woods, Rokuzaemonn woods, Takasaki woods, high place woods, Shiroko Forest such as woods that are attached even the name of the summit.This is showing that was covered in the woods of the beech tree to the summit.The beech tree virgin forest of the woods fortune Santou foot that was designated to the world heritage and it is same, even the natural monument bear galley box of the country is confirmed in Shirakami Mountains. It was also the paradise of the wild animals including a bear at one time. Although it is the place between mountains hinterland where cannot eat with only agriculture the rich nature that overflowed to the blessing of the beech tree was. Even that the specific culture called the Matagi, is born here, and have been succeeded be able to nod.
The root child community where is said to be the Matagi birthplace was making a detour the alley of the precipice where comes off to the straw grass area at one time.With, when there is a village in such the mountain back it is located in the such place where is surprised. Cover the number of houses 89 door, straw and the roof touches said the eaves and that the path inside the line, community look like the maze. As for a left photograph, the tunnel (the depopulated nucleus farm road) of about 800 m finish the root child pass in Showa 50 and the convenience of traffic improved by leaps and bounds.
The shrine where enshrines the guardian deity, mountain god of the Matagi. The previous day when goes out to hunting worships it with everyone. After give sake and prayed rich hunting and safety returning in the house of drinking, Sakari to the turn from sake Sakari (the leader of the Matagi) it did an alcohol heap.	"The piles foundation volume" (this Ani-machi stroke Suzuki Matsuji place warehouse) where it has been handed down in, the house of Sakari hereditarily.I acquired it without fail when the old days enter into the mountain with hunting, with the secret book that this scroll recorded the origin and authority of the Matagi. That this scroll is a sacred thing and show to the family it is said to have done not become.
The life of the village that bears a severe snowstorm. Snow bends over the village heavily. People will avoid to the destiny that lives with unavoidable snow has been shouldered.	The visiting in the spring of Ani-machi is late. The mountPeople will avoid to the destiny that lives with unavoidable snow has been shouldered. ain range in April is shut to deep snow and the tree bud of Japanese pepper is sleeping firmly yet. The spring of the Matagi is the season of the roll hunting of a bear. Awoke only of the bear, is gone after in the mountain and valley where freeze from hibernation and attach.
Mr. Tatugorou Suzuki which was Sakari of this Ani-machi stroke. I am the last person who set up livelihood with the Matagi.	(Be) the heart of a bear.The one that Matsuhashi fortune Mr. Taro hangs Tannnou, that cut from 2 bears which got with the bear hunting in fall on the heater and dried. 1/about 4 of size of when that are raw. It is the highest-class article in a Chinese herb medicine. The effect was dealt as the medicine that works on a chronic digestive ailment, food poisoning, fatigue recovery, hangover etc., all kinds of diseases and was the precious source of income of a Matagi from the old days.
The representative Matagi community of Ani-machi is a root child, this stroke ratio stand inside. The photograph of the top be the community of the Matagi within the ratio stand. The mountain where is seen to the back most most came and made this all over piedmont a hunting ground with Shiroko Forest (1179 m).	This stroke community which is in the hinterland most among a mountain deep back Ani area. This stroke Matagi was making woods periphery territory the black manner. The traditional Matagi as the occupation is inherited the hunting in the near future, without the tradition and faith of the people that live following the blessing of the mountain being lost, although it has disappeared.