抄録
The purpose of this study is to clarify historical process of reclamation work and land use transition developed the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture include Iwase Farm to retain land use from the establishment of the Imperial estate in 1880 to the present. Classify reclamation work developed Iwase Farm and the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture by three periods. And elucidate the transition of the land use from the historical records owned by Iwase Farm, the administrative report on reclamation work, map data. Rice fields increased over the land original river system by the irrigation project after the war. The original wild nature disappeared, and the agricultural landscape of the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture was homogenized. Iwase Farm and the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture is the multi-layered space where the change of land use since the Meiji. And it appears as agricultural landscape, including the historical significance and framework of landscape.
