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Volume 21 (2012)
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comparison of species and folkloreMasaya Satoh, Risa Abe, Ayumi Nomura, Hun Kang, Katsuya Seta2012 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 3-19
Published: 2012
Released on J-STAGE: March 17, 2021
JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSDai-Nippon Rouju Meiboku-shi is a book on trees in Japan published in 1913, when a trend to protect natural monuments was prevailing. It contains the address, trunk circumference at 1.5 m above ground, height, age, and legends and manners of 1500 famous trees. Chosen Kyoju Rouju Meiboku-shi, published in 1919, is a similar book of 3168 trees in the Korean Peninsula. In this study we tried to understand trees of Japan and the Korean Peninsula botanically and culturally based on these books. The major trees in Dai-Nippon Rouju Meiboku-shi are Pinus spp., Cryptomeria japonica, Cinnamomum camphora, Zelkova serrata, Cerasus spp., and Ginkgo biloba, and those in Chosen Kyoju Rouju Meiboku-shi are Zelkova serrata, Celtis sinensis and Aphananthe aspera, Ginkgo biloba, Pinus densiflora, Fraxinus mandshurica, and Styphnolobium japonicum. Major owners of the trees are shrines and temples in Japan, and regional communities in the Korean Peninsula. Legends of the trees vary depending on the species and seem to have partly originated from their morphological and physiological features. Moreover, comparison of the folklore about the trees brought out the difference in history, religion, and culture between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.View full abstractDownload PDF (960K) -
Miki Konno, Arata Momohara, Reisuke Kondo, Kiyoyuki Shigeno, Yosuke Mi ...2012 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 21-28
Published: 2012
Released on J-STAGE: March 17, 2021
JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSWe studied plant macrofossil assemblages from a boring core on the southern shore of Lake Himenuma, Rishiri Island, Hokkaido, northernmost Japan and clarified environmental and vegetation changes in and around the lake since the last glacial maximum (LGM). Between 16,964 ± 48 and 15,917 ± 85 yrs BP during the LGM, Pinus pumila shrubs grew sparsely with Selaginella helvetica on poor soil influenced by volcanic activity under dry cold climate. The lake began to develop with submerged aquatic plant communities including Characeae, Isoetes asiatica, and Ranunculus nipponicus var. major. Sorbus and Alnus maximowiczii began to grow in the Pinus pumila assemblage around the lake up to 14,265 ± 44 yrs BP, but afterwards plant remains were not supplied to the boring site, because of lake expansion.View full abstractDownload PDF (950K) -
Shuichi Noshiro, Yuka Sasaki, Mitsuo Suzuki, Yumiko Murakami2012 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 29-40
Published: 2012
Released on J-STAGE: March 17, 2021
JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSRecently Quercus gilva came to be identified from wood structure, and we re-identified oak woods of the Yayoi to Kofun periods from seven sites in the Kanto district, central Japan. Re-identification showed that Quercus gilva was exclusively selected for making hoes and spades during these periods. At four sites in the southern part, Quercus gilva accounted for 50–70% of hoes and spades including unfinished ones and their materials, indicating that these hoes and spades were made around the sites. At two sites in the northern part, Quercus gilva was replaced by other species of Q. subgen. Cyclobalanopsis and species of Q. sect. Aegilops for hoes and spades, and the limited number of finished and unfinished ones made of Quercus gilva were though to be brought from the southern part. Even at the four southern sites, wooden artifacts other than hoes and spades were mostly made from species other than Q. subgen. Cyclobalanopsis, and Q. gilva was used sparingly among the small number of artifacts of Q. subgen. Cyclobalanopsis. This exclusive use of Q. gilva for hoes and spades during these periods was probably due to the elastic and comparatively strong nature of the wood of this species.View full abstractDownload PDF (1439K)
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