新地理
Online ISSN : 1884-7072
Print ISSN : 0559-8362
ISSN-L : 0559-8362
54 巻, 1 号
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  • 青木 栄一
    2006 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 1-17
    発行日: 2006/06/25
    公開日: 2010/04/30
    ジャーナル フリー
    The author once published two reports of criticism, in 1982 and 2001, on the legend of movement against railway construction during Meiji Era, spreading all over Japan. On many books of regional history, both in academic or journalistic works, they have introduced the legend that there were many movements against railway, for the infringement to right vested in feudal system, or simple ignorance to newly coming technologies. Strange enough, they did not show any document providing the movement. The author pointed that the legend was fiction created by posterity. His paper was agreed and supported by many articles of railway historians and geographers.
    In this paper, the author shows some examples of regional history books and school text-books, mainly in the case of the Kobu Railway in Tokyo Metropolitan Area. The railway has had legend that it was constructed in spite of strong opposition by some post-town, along main roads. And he shows how they described the legend, and how they changed their description, with the passage of time. Prior to the 1980s, they had described the legend without any document and had also added “new” legend one after another. After the 1990s, however, many regional history books have changed their style of description, telling the legend apart from the historical truth. It corresponds to the development of regional railway history and geography studies. As for school text-books, correspondence to the change of description in regional history books is progressing, but is slow to some extent.
  • フラワーリングシートの作成とそれを用いた観測
    松本 太, 西 克幸
    2006 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 18-27
    発行日: 2006/06/25
    公開日: 2010/04/30
    ジャーナル フリー
    It is said that plant phenology such as flowering, coloring and falling of leaves have been changing recently corresponding with climatic changes in urbanized area of Japan. For example, flowering dates of cherry blossoms (Prunus yedoensis) have been getting earlier year-to-year in Japan. It is considered that these phenomena are related to urban heat island including the effects of global warming. Changes in plant phenology may be useful indicators that show climatic changes such as global warming and urban heat island. Therefore, an observation of plant phenology should be an effective method to evaluate regional climatic environment. The method can be used for school education and environmental monitoring by citizens. And in order to apply the observation to monitoring climatic environment, it is necessary to construct the methods which everyone can easily understand and use to observe.
    Then the authors created the flowering sheet of Prunus yedoensis, which everyone used easily to observe in close regions. Moreover, in order to prove the effects of the observation by using the flowering sheet, the authors asked Obirin junior and senior high school students to observe the flowering dates of Prunus yedoensis in the Spring of 2005.
    As a result, in study area on the whole, the flowering dates are relatively early areas near downtown Tokyo and they are getting later toward suburban areas. It is considered that the flowering dates may be related to large-scale heat island such as the metropolitan area.
    It is clarified that the observation by using the flowering sheet is an effective method in evaluating the large scale climatic environment, based on the distribution of flowering dates. On the other hand, in the small scale, because the numbers of observation points are few, it is difficult to evaluate heat islands by differences in the flowering dates within a city. Therefore, it is proved that the created flowering sheet is effective in the observation.
  • 志村 喬
    2006 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 28-29
    発行日: 2006/06/25
    公開日: 2010/04/30
    ジャーナル フリー
  • 企画委員会
    2006 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 30-34
    発行日: 2006/06/25
    公開日: 2010/04/30
    ジャーナル フリー
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