Gamou-no

Japanese: 蒲生野 - がもうの

The fields spread across Gamo-gun, Omi Province, on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa. In 668 Emperor Tenchi went on a medicinal hunt in Gamo-gun (Nihon Shoki), following the ancient Chinese custom of men hunting animals for medicinal purposes and women picking herbs. The exchange of poems between Princess Nukata and Prince Oama in the Man'yoshu is said to have occurred at this time. In 670 Emperor Tenchi went to the fields of Gamo-gun to "view the imperial grounds," and there is a theory that he was planning to move the capital there. In 803 Emperor Kanmu made a one-day visit to Gamo-gun. In the Middle Ages, the various villages of Tokuchinho gathered brushwood and the land was gradually turned into fields, and in 1525 there was a dispute with the various villages of Misono (Imahori Hiyoshi Shrine documents). During the Edo period, there was still uncultivated land that was shared by the surrounding villages, but although several plans to cultivate it were made in 1726 and 1842, they were cancelled, and by the Showa period the land was gradually converted into rice paddy fields.

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Japanese:

琵琶湖の東岸，近江国蒲生郡に広がっていた野。668年天智天皇は蒲生野で薬猟を行っており（《日本書紀》），男は薬用の動物を狩猟し，女は薬草を摘むという古代中国の風習に倣うものであった。また《万葉集》の額田王と大海人皇子の贈答歌はこのときのこととされる。670年には天智天皇が蒲生郡の野に行って〈宮地を観〉しており，遷都の計画があったとする説がある。803年には桓武天皇が蒲生野に丸１日行幸している。中世には得珍(とくちん)保の諸郷が柴草を取ったり，あるいは畠地化が進んでいき，1525年などに柿御園(みその)の諸郷と相論になっている（今堀日吉神社文書）。江戸時代にはなお未墾地が残され，周辺の村々の立合となっていたが，1726年・1842年など数度の開墾計画がたてられたものの取り止めとなり，昭和期に入ってしだいに水田化した。

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