Study on the traditional cooperative system of keeping silver grass field as inherited culture and thatched roof village community

about preservation of traditional grass field in IUCHI and survey on restoration of local residential environment

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the traditional silver grass field and cooperative system called“KOU”has been inherited by small village“IUCHI”, Ehime prefecture in Japan, and we revealed its true figure historically and socially. We also investigated about the relationships between“KOU”system and village society, which has never been a study subject, and extracted a certain feature of locality here. Besides this we survey how we can study from this historical cooperative system and adapt it into the present social crisis called“no community”.