抄録
The current water's edge environment of the Kakehashi river in Komatsu has been critically reviewed on the basis of the literature survey and field study.
It is realized that the water's edge environment is far superior to that of rivers flowing through the big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka in Japan, and is still keeping an excellent ecological system consisting of animals, plants as well as human beings. There are many forests and buried cultural properties around the river.Each of the forests normally belongs to the shrine that has been the centre of the people's belief and life, whereas the distribution of the buried cultural properties reflect the sphere of their activity since the 2nd century or more ancient time.
It is strongly recommended to preserve the water's edge environment of the Kakehashi river including a valuable shrine Komatsu-temmaangu, the forests and the buried cultural properties for the further development of the characteristic culture in Komatsu, where Komatsu-temmangu was founded by the third dynast of Kaga-han, Toshitsune Maeda in 1657 and was designated as a national important cultural property in 1961. Hence, any countermeasure for the flood contradicting to these propositions must be modified so as to meet them or the alternative countermeasure must be newly considered.
