Rough hand - Arate

Japanese: 荒手 - あらて
Rough hand - Arate

…Both the front and back of the levee must be sturdy so that it will not be destroyed even if a flood overflows. It is believed that the first levee was built on the Yellow River in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the first full-scale overflow levee in Japan was built on the Hamado River, a tributary of the Midorikawa River in Kumamoto during the Bunkyu era in the 19th century. At the time, it was called Nori-koshi-tei or Arate. Levee [Nakazawa Kazuhito]. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "arate" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…洪水が越流しても破壊しないよう,堤防の表裏とも堅固な構造とする必要がある。明朝末期,中国の黄河に設けられたのが最初と推定されており,日本では19世紀の文久年間に熊本の緑川支流の浜戸川に造られたのが本格的な越流堤の最初で,当時は乗越堤,荒手などと呼ばれていた。堤防【中沢 弌仁】。…

※「荒手」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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