Tanyo Village in the province of Owari is an all but pure farm-village located in the north of Nagoya City at the distance of about eight kilometers from that metropolis. The district abounds in vegetable gardens, across which in many places paddy fields are tilled so that the lands offer an involved view. There is found a distribution of lands which cannot be shown on a map drawn to the scale of one to 25, 000. Also there is a peculiar arrangement of tilled lands. Among rice fields vegetable gardens shaped like narrow tablets are so distributed as to make as a whole a beautiful checker.
In this report, Tanyo Village characterized by the above mentioned singular land-allocation is treated as a representative case of farming combined with gardening in our country. By tracing this peculiar landdistribution back to the very beginning, its characteristics are examined in the following order:
1. Topography.
2. Origination of the form of tilled lands.
3. Method of land-division.
4. Producing capability of cultivated lands.
5. Increase and decrease of island-gardens.
6. Ownership of tilled lands.
5. Increase and decrease of island-gardens.
6. Ownership of tilled lands.
Other related matters are discussed too. The author is of the opinion that a clue to the solving of questions as to the geographical condition of our country prior to the period of statutes is obtained in this way. It is made clear that the growth of a village in this region has been a rare occurrence since ancient times because of the difficulties in irrigation and drainage. The land-allocation peculiar to the region is explained briefly. A circumstance such as the existence of this district will be seldom found in other pasts of the Owari plain where the population is rather dense.
