Cultivation - Kaikon

Japanese: 開墾 - かいこん

〘 noun 〙 1. To clear forests and wilderness areas and turn them into farmland. ※Shoku Nihongi - Yoro 6th year (722), leap year April, Oushi "In preparation for _the _drought , _{the government} was forced to _provide _laborers _and cultivate the _well -cultivated land into one million cho of good rice paddies. _" [Song History - Taizu Chronicle] 2. The Land Tax Ordinance of 1884 ( Meiji 17 ) referred to spending labor and money on second-class land, namely ponds, forests, wilderness, and miscellaneous land, to turn it into first-class land, namely rice paddies, farmland, county and village housing sites, urban housing sites, salt fields, and mineral springs.

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 山林や原野を切り開いて、耕地にすること。※続日本紀‐養老六年（722）閏四月乙丑「以備_二水旱_一、仍委_二所司_一、差_二発人夫_一、開_二墾膏腴之地良田一百万町_一」〔宋史‐太祖紀〕② 明治一七年（一八八四）の地租条例で第二類地、すなわち池沼、山林、原野、雑種地に労力や費用をかけて、第一類地、すなわち田、畑、郡村宅地、市街宅地、塩田、鉱泉地とすること。

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