Arishima Farm - Arishima Farm

This farm was owned by Arishima Takeo of the Shirakaba faction in Niseko Town (formerly Kaributo Village) under the jurisdiction of the Hokkaido Shiribeshi General Subprefectural Bureau, and is famous for Arishima's farm opening. It covered an area of ​​about 450 hectares, with about 70 tenant households. In 1897 (Meiji 30), Takeshi's father, Takeshi, was leased 1 million tsubo (about 330 hectares) under the Hokkaido National Undeveloped Land Disposal Act, but returned it. In 1899, he reapplied under the name of his son-in-law, Yamamoto Naoyoshi, and was granted a lease of about 908,000 tsubo, which he recruited tenant farmers to cultivate. In 1908 (Meiji 41), the name was changed to Takeo, and the following year, in 1909, he passed the cultivation test, which is an inspection to determine whether the national undeveloped land has been successfully cultivated (First Farm). Furthermore, he purchased approximately 94 chobu (approximately 93 hectares) in 1914 (Taisho 3) and 1916 (the Second Farm). It is said that Arishima had been thinking about liberating the farm from an early stage, due to the miserable living conditions of his tenant farmers and the influence of Kropotkin, and in July 1922 he liberated the farm as a shared ownership interest for the tenant farmers, who then organized the Limited Liability Karita Kyosei Nodan Shinkin Utility Association to operate the farm. With the liberation of farmland in 1949 (Showa 24), the farm became privately owned. On site there is a "Farm Liberation Memorial Memorial" erected in 1924 (Taisho 13), and the "Arishima Memorial Hall" built in 1978.

[Funatsu Isao]

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北海道後志(しりべし)総合振興局管内のニセコ町（旧狩太(かりぶと)村）に白樺(しらかば)派の有島武郎(たけお)が所有していた農場で、有島の農場解放で有名。面積約450ヘクタール、小作約70戸であった。1897年（明治30）父武(たけし)が「北海道国有未開地処分法」により100万坪（約330ヘクタール）の貸し下げを受けたがいったん返却。1899年、女婿山本直良(なおよし)名義で再出願、約90万8000坪の貸し下げを受け、小作人を募集して開墾した。1908年（明治41）武郎に名義変更、翌1909年国有未開地の開墾成功の検査である成耕検査に合格（第一農場）。さらに1914年（大正3）と1916年に約94町歩（約93ヘクタール）を買収（第二農場）した。有島は、小作人の悲惨な生活、クロポトキンの影響などによって、早くから農場解放を考えていたといわれるが、1922年7月、農場を小作人の共有という形で解放、旧小作人は「有限責任狩太共生農団信用利用組合」を組織して農場を運営した。1949年（昭和24）の農地解放により、農場は個人の私有地となった。現地には1924年（大正13）建立の「農場解放記念碑」、1978年建設の「有島記念館」がある。

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