The Ise area is located in the western part of the Hida Marginal Belt (central Japan), which includes several sporadic exposures of ultramafic rocks, sometimes forming a serpentinite mélange of the Paleozoic age. Ultramafic rocks in the Ise area, enveloped by Paleozoic -Mesozoic sedimentary rocks, are completely serpentinized; however, the abundance of bastite after orthopyroxene suggests harzburgite protoliths. ) atomic ratio, <0.03]}, similar to chromian spinel in Kotaki and Oeyama ultramafic masses. It is also similar in chemistry to spinels in forearc and abyssal peridotites, suggesting two possibilities for the derivation of the Ise serpentinite's protoliths. The degree of melting using Cr# versus TiO 2 of chromian spinel is ~ 20 -25%, which is in accordance with the harzburgite protoliths obtained by whole -rock chemistry models. We found that Cr, Al, Ni and Ca, preserved in bastite and meshtextured serpentine, are conservative during serpentinization, confirmed from the similarity in the whole -rock A1 and Ca of the Ise serpentinites to Horoman harzburgites. The occurrence of dolomite can stabilize the Ca and limited its mobility to escape outside the serpentinites. The harzburgite protoliths were possibly serpentinized by slab -derived fluids at a shallow depth relative to the Happo -O'ne serpentinites during the exhumation process.