A Study on a Traditional Supply Method of Firewood in Tohoku Area:

The History of a Local Circulation System through Forest Biomass

Abstract

In this study, historic positioning and geographical positioning of the firewood and charcoal use in Japan was done and a traditional supply method was clarified to consider a circulation system of forest resources. Firewood and charcoal played a key role of wood use until World War II in Japan. Various devices are elaborate to supply a large quantity of felling trees to a consuming area. A transportation method with a river called “Kinagasi” was used in those days. A lot of description on Kinagasi emerge to a geographical book of Tohoku region.