- 著者
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伊藤 文夫
- 出版者
- 日本地理教育学会
- 雑誌
- 新地理 (ISSN:05598362)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.35, no.1, pp.29-40, 1987-06-25 (Released:2010-04-30)
- 参考文献数
- 22
The author intend to consider the characteristics of the local culture in Suwa area from the viewpoints of analyzing Minka (the residences of farmers), traditional events and vegetables in the cold highland.The results of this study are summarized as follows;(1) The climatic characteristics of Suwa area are severe coldness and strong wind in winter because it locates in the cold highland. For these reasons, there are many ideas such as Yukigaki (taxaceous tree fences for windbreak) and Nurume (a ditch for paddy rice fields to warm up irrigational water) to prevent its coldness everywhere in this area. On the other hand, there many localized industries such as producing Kanten (agar-agar) and Kori-tofu and -mochi (frozen and dried tofu and glutinous rice cake) which exploit severe coldness. These industries are developed in the settlements of the upland and of the eastern foot of the mountain slopes where the sun sets very early in the evening.(2) There are some more landscapes peculiar to cold climate like this Suwa area. The structures such as Tategurumi (the way of building Minka: the storehouse is built in the main building), Teppei-seki yane (tiles of the roofs are made of plates of (two-pyroxene-andesite) and Ohnoki-zukuri (the building with long eaves) are rational ways of building the Minka under the climate like Suwa area. Traditional vegetables such as Ueno-daikon (a kind of radish) and Suwa-benikabu (a kind of turnip) have been cropped for making pickles with cold resistance to cross over winter. Traditional festivals and events associated with Suwa-Shinko (the faith in the Suwa Shrine) penetrate into the people's life of this area.(3) It is recognized that are four types of settlements which preserve traditional cultures very well in this area. The first type of the settlements are located in the foot of high mountains; Sasahara and Kami-Tsukinoki, Chino City and Ueno, Suwa City. The second type are located far from the main road; Kami-Futta and Ohsawa, Chino City and Sendatsu, Fujimi Town. The third ones have common forest owned by Zaisan-ku or Buraku-ku (small terrestrial groups); Toyoda, Konan and Shiga, Suwa City, Higashi-Yamada, Shimo-Suwa Town, Oikawa and Misawa, Okaya City, Miyagawa and Tamagawa, Chino City and Okkoto, Fujimi Town. The fourth type of the settlements have the priginal hot spring; Kowata, Suwa City. Peoples in the settlements of last two types have strong solidarity of a rural community to take over their cultures because the groups have comonm properties.The Suwa Culture tends to flow into the Kami-Ina area, where belongs the same drainage of Suwa Lake and Tenryu River. Hewever, it is hard to flow into Yamanashi Prefecture.