Karishiki - Karishiki

Japanese: 刈敷 - かりしき

Also called "kashiki." A type of self-sufficient fertilizer. It was widely used as a base fertilizer for rice paddies from ancient times to the early Edo period. Generally, before rice planting, young shoots of broadleaf trees and grass were collected from common mountains and trodden into the rice paddies to use as fertilizer. It was also used in the form of ash, manure, and compost, but gradually it was replaced by gold fertilizer.

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Japanese:

「かしき」ともいう。自給肥料の一種。古代から江戸時代前期にかけて水田の基肥 (もとごえ) として広く行われた。一般に田植え前には広葉樹の若芽や草などを入会 (いりあい) 山から採取して水田に踏込み，肥料とした。そのほか，灰，厩肥，堆肥などの形で利用したが，次第に金肥に変った。

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