The peculiality of nanatsuka-cho located on the coastal dune

Abstract

Nanatsuka-cho in Ishikawa Prefectre is a very peculiar settlement located on a coastal dune. The surface of ground water being so deep, and consequently drinking water being inconvenient to get, they sink a well by means of a special technique handed down from time immemorial. Every well there is a common well. They exclusively crop the fields aud there is no paddy-fields. Before the war, more than half of the arable land was occupied by mulberry-fields, which were changed to others for raising the staple food during the war. Today the fruit-tree is the chief crop there. However, the arable land belonging to each farm-house being limited, farming can't be the main industry in the settlement. What are prosperous in Nanatsuka-cho are fishering and silk iudustry. The former is remarkable in the north half of the settlemet, and the latter in the south half. Therefore, it combines two characters of silk industry settlement and fishing industry one. This fact gives rise to the problem as to dividing the settlement into two areas. Nanatsuka-cho in Ishikawa Prefectre is a very peculiar settlement located on a coastal dune. The surface of ground water being so deep, and consequently drinking water being inconvenient to get, they sink a well by means of a special technique handed down from time immemorial. Every well there is a common well. They exclusively crop the fields aud there is no paddy-fields. Before the war, more than half of the arable land was occupied by mulberry-fields, which were changed to others for raising the staple food during the war. Today the fruit-tree is the chief crop there. However, the arable land belonging to each farm-house being limited, farming can't be the main industry in the settlement. What are prosperous in Nanatsuka-cho are fishering and silk iudustry. The former is remarkable in the north half of the settlemet, and the latter in the south half. Therefore, it combines two characters of silk industry settlement and fishing industry one. This fact gives rise to the problem as to dividing the settlement into two areas. © 1953, The Human Geographical Society of Japan. All rights reserved.