Cultural associations in an ancient lake:gods of water in Lake Biwa and the River Yodo basin,Japan

摘要

Lake Biwa is the largest lake in the Japanese Archipelago (surface area 670.3 km~2;volume 27.62 km~3).An ancient lake,it originated about 4 MY-ago,and has become deeper and larger at the present site during the past 0.4 MY-ago.