南部杜氏の移動範圍と其の距離的性格の一考察

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(1) Many people from the rice rearing villages along the river Kitakami go to work to Japanese-sake breveries every winter, and the number of those people amounts to 2, 800. Their range of movement is very long north aud south along the sake-brewing centers along the Pacific coast, which is very different from ordinary caces of temporary movements of village laborers into near-by cities.
(2) These long-distance movements of laborers generally well, but brewing-centers a log way off which promise them high wages do not always attract the more laborers
(3) The reason is that they have their own farms to attend to, and only want to pick up some extra income making use of their winter leisure time. Their distance of movements, therefore, is restricted according to the scale of their own farm.
(4) Those laborers have from 1/2 to 4 cho (Japanese unit of area) of farms, and the smaller farmers go farther because of the good income, but the good income, but the larger farmers' movements are the same almost every year-the relation between those farmers and brewers having a long historical connection. The feudalistic character of those breweries and the long tradition of the laborers' movement are after stronger elements than the amount of pay they get.
(5) There has been in Japan the re-distribution of farm-land, and this, together with other reasons-embankment works and dam-building for the Kitakami and the electrification of the farm villages-has caused a remarkable change in the scale of Japan's farm-industry.
Winter movements of those farm-laborers must, therefore, suffer some changes; but what the changes will be is the problem still left to be solved.