Compositions of Landscape along a Historical Canal

A Case Study of Shikamura-mizo Canal, Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture

Abstract

Shikamura-mizo was the agricultural canal into which river water was led by a weir of traditional form. The objective of this report was to grasp the compositions of landscape along this canal from the start to the end, and to gain knowledges about landscape of irrigation according to topography. The result showed that there were the sections in which the relationships between the canal and the topography were different from each other. Moreover, even in the section where the same relation between the canal and the topography continued, woods and houses created the varieties of landscape compositions along the canal. Such differences had not been pointed out in the previous report about the canal which relation with the topography had been more monotonous, so it was thought to be a new finding about the landscape of irrigation according to topography.