Abstract
The purpose of this study is to reveal the historical background of Iwase Farm as Japan's first Western ranch across Kagamiishi and Sukagawa city, Fukushima Prefecture. And re-evaluate the value of a complex modern industrial heritage of Iwase Farm. Classified into seven times since opening the ranch up Iwase, said the fact the course. And organized into four categories of heritage resources in the modernization of farms and industry. Iwase Farm, as well as the value of the tangible heritage of modern industry, pastoral industry in the Meiji era technology was introduced directly from overseas to bring the landscape "Westernization" as an example of the value of the combined worth of the intangible to have. Go through the time in more than 130 years been established as the prototype of the Western livestock industry in Japan, came to have a landscape value as a pasture landscape. Japan said that the origin of the pasture landscape planning principles established at the time.
