<Articles>The Regional Order in the Modern Villages and its Transition : Taking the Case of Sasazeki 笹堰 Water Supply Area

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  • <論説>現代農村の地域秩序とその変容 : 笹堰水利地域を事例にして
  • 現代農村の地域秩序とその変容--笹堰水利地域を事例にして
  • ゲンダイ ノウソン ノ チイキ チツジョ ト ソノ ヘンヨウ ササセキ スイリ

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Japanese rural society is now undergoing a radical change as the social conditions in and around the agricultural life changes. Scientists of our days, above all geographers, think it important to examine the actual state of modern villages. In this article, taking the case of Sasazeki water supply area, I would like to investigate into the social structure of the area under an agricultural water supply and its changing process. This case study will make the change of modern villages clear, and contribute to the development of 'area study', which, I think, is the fundamental theory of geography. Sasazeki water supply area was subdivided into seventeen small areas which were the basic units to get water supply. These sub-areas, corresponding to the rural communities in the feudal age, were apt to be independent and opposed one another. Water for agriculture was distributed to the sub-areas by two methods. By bansui 番水 method water was distributed equally to the seventeen sub-areas, while by chirashi 散し method there was an order of priority according to the location of the sub-areas. Since 30's of Shōwa 昭和 era, however, this water supply system and sectionalism of the sub-areas have been gradually undergoing a change, whose causes and phases I will examine in this paper.

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  • 史林

    史林 59 (2), 227-261, 1976-03-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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