Japanese Journal of Human Geography
Online ISSN : 1883-4086
Print ISSN : 0018-7216
ISSN-L : 0018-7216
Volume 16, Issue 4
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  • K. SAITO
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 337-352
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    The Kiryu textile industry began as a simple rural industry, but has developed in modern times into a widely diversified industry which has played a great role in developing this region. With the development of modern manufacturing processes, Kiryu textiles has found markets throughout the world.
    The economic well-being of the Kiryu region depends now largely on the health of this industry.
    This study investigates the development of this industry from its early foundation to the present. It is particularly concerned with the development of manufacturing processes and the interaction of this essential industry with the regional structure and development of the Kiryu area.
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  • Masayoshi KUSAKA
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 353-381
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    The author, having investigated geographically the formation of land surface feature and the development of land utilization concerning plain, of the lower Kinokawa, Wakayama District, has made here a summary of various findings. By using aerial photograph, the area was surveyed though so far little investigation has been done into these matters mentioned-above and more data are needed on these points.
    The results obtained are as follows:
    1) The plain situated on the lower Kinokawa is classified into eight landform types. The floodplain lies in the upper region than the area that links Minami-narukami where is on the left bank of the Kinokawa river with Umehara on the right bank. The author has been further grouped the area into two large classes: The upper and lower surfaces. The lower surface is observed at the foot districts along a mountain, as compared with piecemeal distribution of the upper one except the lower region as a whole.
    The lower surface of delta is looked at the back area of beach ridge nearest to the coast and the district where is the junction area the river Waka and Wada, in contrast to the upper surface of delta on the both banks of Kinokawa river mouth is widely distributed round the sand mound where Wakayama Castle is built, and then the beach ridge or the sand dune branches off three main courses along the shore line. This indicates their growing process of the shore line.
    2) It may be permitted to arrange the channel race as seen on the plain in three classes; a) point bars are observed upon the district where floodplain shifts towards the delta, and b) the floodplain score routes are studded with the floodplain for the most part. c) abandoned courses distribute a bit continuously extending over the floodplain to the delta.
    3) Though one-time Kinokawa river wears away foot edge of the northern fan land, however, after that that gradually turns off the course to the south. Considered the tendency of the course changes in the historical period, the river is turning the course to the south on the upper area and to the north on the lower one revolving around the Nakasu- village.
    From prehistory to ancient times, the river Kinokawa goes through nearly the present Waka-gawa river course. But about A.D. 1, 000, the main course emptied into the sea from the Kitajima- Village to the ôura via the Nezumi-jima. The author supposes the present Kino-kawa river course was formed in the years of 1, 600 or there about.
    4) On the land development work it was not considerably active in the middle age, however, in the ancient times the land utilization was carried out widely extending over the floodplain forward the delta. In the recent times there are two development works: a) the land-utilization of tidal marshy land and sand dune area, and b) re-development of ex-cultivated land buried by the river activity.
    Viewed the aerial photograph and archives, the developmental process on this plain is not so easy as we imagined. According to the archives, devastated field of the cultivated land comes to 3-4 times in the Matsushima and its neighbourhood, in comparison with the landscapes of development works in the ancient times are left in the district along the terrace cliff of the right bank and in the Iwahashi hill lands west of left bank.
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  • Hiroshi TANABE
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 382-407
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    Cette étude a pour objet d'analyser la distribution régionale des grandeurs communales au Japon et de constater son arrière-plan historique. Du point de vue génétique, c'est le groupement politique des hommes qui forme le territoire administratif par le fait de la possession exclusive d'une partie de la terre. Une fois que le territoire administratif est conscrit, le terrain devient l'héritage historique et les homes qui y vivent, se joignent à l'organisation administrative. La grandeur communale serait donc mesurée par le nombre des habitants et l'étendue de la terre, c'est-à-dire, la population et la superficie.
    En 1884, les communes ont, en moyenne, 300-500 d'habitants et 1-2km2 de superficie (Fig. 1). La population en est grande sur le côte du Pacifique du Nord-est (Tohoku), dans la région montagneuse centrale, l'ouest de la région de Chugoku et les îles de Shikoku et de Kyushu. Elle est petite dans les plaines du Kanto et du Kansai, dans la région de Chugoku de l'est et sur le côte de la Mer du Japon, de Tsugaru à Shimane (Fig. 2). La distribution de la grandeur superficielle va en paralléle (Fig. 3). Les Figure 2 et 3 montrent les grandeurs des communes dans les hans (fiefs du régime féodal).
    Par exemple, les communes dans le territoire du Hirosaki-han (partie ouest de la préfecture d'Aomori) sont plus petites que dans le territoire du Nambu-han (le reste d'Aomori), mais celles du Nobeoka-han (partie nord de Miyazaki) sont larges. Et les grandes communes ne sont pas. toujours de gros villages, elles ne sont souvent que des groupements de hameaux, comme celles du Hagi-han (préfecture de Yamaguchi), par exemple.
    Quand le système moderne de l'administration communale (shi-cho-son) a été mis en vigueur en 1889, la plupart des communes précédentes ont été réunies sous une autre forme. Elles ont été relativement agrandies dans le Tohoku et le Kyushu méridional, et rétrécies dans la région de montagnes centrales, la préfecture du Hiroshima, la partie ouest de Shimane, le Shikoku septentrional et le Nagasaki (Fig. 10). Par conséquent, elles sont devenues égales pour la plupart au point de vue de la population, à peu près 2000 d'habitants, à l'exception des grandes communes dans le Yamaguchi-ken, le Tokushima-ken et le Kyushu méridional, et des petites dans le Gifu-ken (Fig. 9). Mais quant à la superficie, il y en a de larges dans les régions montagneuses, ou sous-dévéloppées, de population peu dense et il y en a d'étroites dans les plaines peuplées comme celles du Kanto, de Niigata, de Noobi (Gifu et Aichi) et d'Osaka (Fig. 8). La Figure 7 montre en gros les types de la grandeur communale en population et en superficie, classés selon les préfectures (ken). L'île de Hokkaïdo se distingue des autres parce que, restée en dehors de l'administration féodale, elle n'a pas subi l'application du systéme moderne communal de 1889. Et, dans la distribution régionale des grandeurs communales après 1889, on peut remarquer le vestige de la division territoriale féodale, assez vivant dans les régions comme celles de Hagi, de Kagoshima, de Nobeoka et du Nord-est.
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  • Toshiaki SAKAI
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 408-424
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 425-431
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 432-438
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 438-445
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 445
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 445a-446
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 446-447
    Published: August 28, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 447
    Published: August 28, 1964
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