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  • Setagaya and Night-soil
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This paper explores the history of night-soil utilization in Setagaya for agricultural production and changes in the ways night-soil was used in the course of urbanization. In Setagaya, located in the west of Tokyo (Edo), vegetables were cultivated with night-soil fermented from human excrement. Farmers sold vegetables and bought fertilizer in the town. This commerce between farmers and urban residents created and maintained an equilibrium among city dwellers, night-soil peddlers and farmers. The farmers in Setagaya also benefited greatly from ample cheap night-soil from the many military facilities located in this area. 　　In the 1910s, as the population of Tokyo increased, the farmers in the western suburbs could buy night-soil from areas closer at hand than urban Tokyo. This caused difficulties in the disposal of human waste in the west part of the City of Tokyo (Yamanote) and the beginning of the municipalization of the disposal of human waste. This lead gradually away from a system in which farmers paid for human waste, to one in which residents paid the city to dispose of their waste. 　　After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, housing increased in Setagaya, but lots of farmland still existed and collecting human waste was commonly seen until 1936 when most of the disposal work was taken over by the government.

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    学苑 (959), (67)-(77), 2020-09-01

    昭和女子大学近代文化研究所

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