Egita Irrigation Canal

Japanese: 江北用水 - えぎたようすい
Egita Irrigation Canal

...The striped land divisions remain in the Ugo Plain and in the Kokufu and Ogamo areas of Kurayoshi City. Until the end of the Edo period, sand-blowing damage and drought damage were severe, so sand-control forests and dune wells were built, and around 1850 (Kaei 3), the Egita irrigation channel was channeled to promote irrigation of the sand dunes. The plains are used as rice paddies, the Hojo Sand Dunes as fields for tobacco and grapes, and the surrounding hills are a production area for Nijisseiki pears. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Kohoku Irrigation Canal" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…羽合平野および倉吉市の国府(こう),小鴨付近には条里型地割が残存している。江戸末期までは飛砂の害や干害がひどかったため防砂林や砂丘井戸を設け,1850年(嘉永3)ころ江北(えぎた)用水を導き,砂丘地の灌漑を進めた。平野部は水田,北条砂丘はタバコ,ブドウなどの畑地として利用され,周辺の丘陵は二十世紀梨の産地となっている。…

※「江北用水」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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