著者

宇治 順一郎

出版者

慶應義塾大学

雑誌

三田商学研究 (ISSN:0544571X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, no.1, pp.49-81, 1960-04-25

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It is very difficult for us to decide the time when the beginning1 of the modern forestry in Japan dated from. But considering the correlations of forestry with other industries and the conditions of marketing of forest products, I think it may be sought in the time between the end of the Meiji and the early Taisho .period, when the main timber-producing districts arose one after another. Just before that time, the amendment of the forest law was realized in 1907 and subsequently a series of the forestal policies was begun. They were the bounty policies and had originally formed a part of the program of the industrial exploitation after the Russo-Japanese War. But in course of time, the substantial character of these policies changed in quality and after all they, became to aim at rather the problems of the public forests, above all, the consolidation of owner-ship of the hamlet forest lands, than the exploitation of the private forests. In addition to it, by the appearance of the Shinrin-Chisui-Jigyo (the flood control afforestation project) the encouragement of afforestation was proceeded, but this project was inclined to give priority to afforestation for rather flood control than exploitation of forest production. Such evolvement of these forestal policies was reflected on the tendency at that time that in spite of the advancement of tree planting, above all on the public forests, the output of forest production, the fall for timber and fuel, stagnated or declined.