Agehamashikienden - salt fields

Japanese: 揚浜式塩田 - あげはましきえんでん

An ancient Japanese salt-making facility. Salt fields were built on the coast above high tide level, seawater was manually pumped and spread over the salt fields, and the water was evaporated by solar heat. This method was of low productivity, but it was used for a long time in coastal areas facing the open ocean, such as the Japan Sea coast and the Kanto region, where inland salt fields could not be established. On the Noto Peninsula, it remained until 1959.

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Japanese:

日本古来の製塩設備。満潮面より高い海岸に塩田を設け，海水を人力で汲上げて塩田面にまき，太陽熱で水分を蒸発させるというもので，生産性の低い方法であったが，日本海沿岸，関東地方など外洋に面して干満差の少い海岸地帯には入浜式塩田が成立せず，長くこの方式が行われた。能登半島では 1959年まで残存した。

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