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Volume 5, Issue 4
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Heishiro Yamaguchi1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 237-254,318
Published: October 30, 1953
Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSShinano is the most typical mountainous district and inland region in Japan. Therefore, it is of great interest as the object of investigation on geography of communication in the inland of Japan. This thesis is a report of my research work with special emphasis on the following three points: duration of the traffic route, modernization of communication, and commercial intercourse of Shinano with the outside world.
(1) Durability of the Traffic Route. The traffic route undergoes a change meeting the needs of the times. It is in order to adapt itself more rationally to the conditions of nature. On the other hand, regardless of the partial transition of the times, it has a tendency to continue its original course of the route extending over a long period of time. This is clearly observed in Shinano as well as in other mountainous districts and countries in the world. Today, transportation by railroad and automobile has been facilitated along the routes of the principal highways before the fudal age, including Tokaido and Nakasendo wick were the main roads of communication of ancient Japan.
(2) Modernization of Communication Although it is an inland shut in by mountains, Shinano was the essential place of the inland communication of old Japan. This fact went far towards enabling Shinano to lay railways upon the coming of the railway age. They were laid from north to south. The modern transportation facilities brought about a sudden change to the sphere of commercial activities in the cities and to the industry generally. The development of the silk-reeling industry at Suwa, which holds the first rank in the world, is closely related with the gradualoperation of the railroads. In this way, the shipment of Kiso-timber and import of marine prodncts became faciI, and transportation of new kind came to de opened to traffic.
(3) Commercial Intercourse of Shinano with the Outsidé world According to the statistics of railway freight immediately before the war, research work was carried out from the viewpoint of quantity on the subject that what kinds of goods were transported between what parts of Shinano and the outside world. The result was arranged in order as is shown in the lists 2-8. These lists not only make us understand the economical relation between Shinano and its neighbouring coastal districts, but throw light on the territorial structure of production and consumption in Shinano.View full abstractDownload PDF (2068K) -
Takayuki Mizuyama1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 254-273,319
Published: October 30, 1953
Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe bamboo-cultivation in the western border area of Kyoto Basin is wellknown, not because of much amount of its production, but of distinctive character that it produces the bamboo-shoot of phyllostachys edulis A & C Riviere (“Mosochiku”).
The bamboo is cultivated in a little higher part of alluvial plain, the gentle slope along the foot of Nishiyama Hill, especially on the surface of diluvial plain.
This distribution of the bamboo-cultivation is controlled by some factors as follow:
(1) There are some parts which are not suitable for rice field, because of the difficulty of irrigation.
The farmers have too much leisure time by reason of the rice field being too small.
By those factors the famers have both ares and time by whcih they can undertake other cultivation besides the rice crop.
(2) The farmers have to gain worse profit for vegetable cultivation in this area than near Kyoto City.
The seasons for bamboo and rice cultivation are different at all.
By those factors the farmers prefer the bamboo cultivation to the vegetable cultivaton.
(3) The area of bamboo cultivation was enlarged according to the increase of demand for bamboo and bamboo shoot.
(4) The shoot's freshness csn be preserved as the distance to the market being short and its transportation being convenient.
Moreover, the shoot's excellent quality can be kept by the suitable soil condition and landform.
Besides the much comes from those factors, there are two charming elements in bamboo cultivation.
1: It is nice for farmers to have some extra income besides from rice cultivation.
2: They can sometimes have special income from fhe occasional speculative high price of the bamboo shoot.
These many factors encourage the farmers to continue the bamboo-cultivation.
By those factors the landscape of bamboo cultivation seems to have been kept on in this area, but it will be soon changed to the scenery of the other landutilization as Kyoto City develops to there.View full abstractDownload PDF (2101K) -
An Example at the South-eastern Foot of Volcano KomochiKanokichi Saito1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 274-282,320
Published: October 30, 1953
Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe relation between locations of mulberry-fields and konnyakuimo (Hydrosme rivieri)-fields was investigated at a hamlet located at the south-eastern foot of volcano Komochi in Gunma Prefecture (Nakago, Shirosatoi-mura, kitagunma-gun, Gunma Prefecture).
The soil is not an important condition of location.
Mulberry-fields keep aloof from any land of frost-damage, which is more conspicuous on flat ground rather than on slope looking toward the south. Being suited to flat ground, however, konnyaku-imo is raised even on the land suffered from frost.
Mulberry-fields belonging to their respective farm-houses can be divided into two kinds: one cultivated on flat ground in the vicinity of the farm-houses, and the other on slope at a disfance. Rather level ground situated between these two kinds of mulberry-fields is chosen for konnyaku-imo fields. The relation between mulberry and konnyaku-imo lies in the rivalry swayed by the economical condition that which of them is more important as a market-oriented crop.
The circumstances in regard to domain prevnt people from making the most of natural conditions. Production would be increased much if land owned by the farmers were exchanged taking such things into consideration as soil, frost-damage, the distance from the farmhouses to their arable land, slope, etc.View full abstractDownload PDF (956K) -
Tomo Okamoto, Hajime Kanasaki1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 282-290,321
Published: October 30, 1953
Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSNanatsuka-cho in Ishikawa Prefectre is a very peculiar settlement located on a coastal dune.
The surface of ground water being so deep, and consequently drinking water being inconvenient to get, they sink a well by means of a special technique handed down from time immemorial. Every well there is a common well.
They exclusively crop the fields aud there is no paddy-fields. Before the war, more than half of the arable land was occupied by mulberry-fields, which were changed to others for raising the staple food during the war. Today the fruit-tree is the chief crop there. However, the arable land belonging to each farm-house being limited, farming can't be the main industry in the settlement. What are prosperous in Nanatsuka-cho are fishering and silk iudustry. The former is remarkable in the north half of the settlemet, and the latter in the south half. Therefore, it combines two characters of silk industry settlement and fishing industry one. This fact gives rise to the problem as to dividing the settlement into two areas.View full abstractDownload PDF (1059K) -
Yasuhiko Yamada, Kotoku Kuwabara1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 290-296,322
Published: October 30, 1953
Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe end of our investigation is, examining the Jôri system of the circumference of its advanced district, we try to contribute some to the study of Jôri system which was once the foundation of ancient Japan, and at the same time, we hope that it can be a clue of understanding ancient paddyfield area. And the other aim is to know the process of the development of the plain of this area.
The area which has the distribution of the Jôri system for the division of land, is shown in the illustration. We could not find the distribution of Jôri system near the turn of the Maruyama River between Fuichiba and Oiso. The places where we do not find the Jôri system around this area are used for mulberry-plantations. Perpendicular line runs from the south to the north in Jôri system. The division has no concern with the land inclination, but only in one part, that is, lower part of the Nasa river, the direction is about N 10° E. The division of rice fields in Jôri area follows the contour, that is, so called contour cultivation.
There are two opinions on Tajima-kokufu (ancient regional capital). But at any rate, it is quite probable that Tajima-kokufu had the characteristic as a river-port. Almost all the kokufu of the countries which are located on the slope that fronts on the Japan Sea, either fronts on bay or located in the important place along the river. From the point of view of the characteristic of Kokufu, it is natural that Kokufu is located at the intersection of the traffic of the sea and land. Tajima can not be an exception too.View full abstractDownload PDF (1053K) -
[in Japanese]1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 297-298
Published: October 30, 1953
Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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[in Japanese]1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 298-301
Published: October 30, 1953
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Takeo Tanioka1953 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages 302-315
Published: October 30, 1953
Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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