<Note>Landholding System in the Kudaka 久高 Island of the Ryukyu

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  • <研究ノート>沖繩久高島の土地制度
  • 沖縄久高島の土地制度
  • オキナワキュウタカシマ ノ トチ セイド
  • <研究ノート>沖縄久高島の土地制度

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Abstract

There remains a very old landholding system in the island of Kudaka 久高 (land area about 2 sq. km., pop. about 630), where 94 % of the cultivated land is common which belongs to 10 'Kumi' 組 and Kumi is divided into 15 parts, what is called one holding unit 一地 with the average dimensions of about 0.2 ha. Before the Second World War, one holding unit is distributed to each man, from sixteen to sixty years old; but after the War to each family (though one half holding unit 一地半 or two holding units 二地 to a large family). Fields, belonging to each Kumi, are dispersed over the whole island, denoting the average dispersing rate of 19.4 plots, and each plot is divided into fifteen equal parts. So fields are of very small "Streifenflur", where sweet potatoes in summer and wheat in winter are raised by women's work only and fishery belongs to men's labor.

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  • 史林

    史林 45 (1), 128-137, 1962-01-01

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

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