2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Geographecal Study about the Reception, Fixation and Development of Watermills in Area
| Project/Area Number |
10680088
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | SlMONOSEKI - City University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRAOKA Akitoshi Simonoseki-City university, Economics, Professor., 経済学部, 教授 (90106013)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NOMA Haruo Nara Women's-University, Literature, Professor., 文学部, 教授 (00131607)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2001
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| Keywords | Waterwheel and Region / Waterwheel of power / noria |
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| Research Abstract |
Generally a waterwheel is supposed to have declined rapidly since Meizi However in the country area, there are many cases which introduced a waterwheel aggressively. A waterwheel was used at the small scale factories. The factory which used waterwheel had been convered into traditional-type waterwheel such as the noria (water-raising wheel) and rice-watermills and used thire technology, As a result of investigation, following fact became clear.
(1) The use of a type of noria as a power of the raw silk instrument.
The traditional noria which called Fuziguruma had been used operation of spinning instrument along the Tenryuu river in the middle of Meizi era.
(2) The use of a traditional-type of rice watermills as a power of waterwheel for industry.
Most of the power waterwheels which used at industry had diversed from ricewatermills.
(3) From KARAUSU(mortar worked by water) to watermills for making kaoline
In old days KARAUSU was used for crushing the kaoline rock, hut from the latter of Edo to the middle of Meizi, the watermills have become used.
(4) The type of western style horizontal turbine-Wheel
A horizontal turbine-wheel was used at cotton factories and mining. This is a different system from traditional-type waterwheels.
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