Cut mulberry style - cut mulberry style

…However, even in this case, the creation of mulberry forests and mulberry fields on land other than the main fields was still encouraged, and the practice of training trees was generally done in what is now called the vertical tree-cutting method. Vertical tree-cutting (without pruning of the branches) produces less mulberry than the cut mulberry training, and requires more labor to remove the mulberry leaves. However, when sericulture was small in scale, the advantages of the vertical tree-cutting method, such as the longer life span of the mulberry tree and its superior cold resistance, were probably adopted rather than being recognized as such. The agricultural book "Complete Book of Agriculture" from the late 17th century explains advanced techniques from mulberry seedling production techniques to the root-cutting training method for mulberry cultivation, providing strong evidence for the theory that cut mulberry training in Japan began after the Genroku period (1688-1704). …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Karikuwa training" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかし，この場合にも依然として本田畑以外の土地を利用した桑林，桑原の造成が奨励されたのであり，仕立ても今日でいう立通し（たてとおし）の立木作りが一般的であった。立通し(枝条の剪定（せんてい）をしない)仕立ては刈桑仕立てにくらべて収桑量が少なく，摘桑にはより多くの労力を要するが，養蚕規模が小さい段階では，このような点での認識よりはむしろクワの寿命が長く，耐寒性に勝る立通しの長所が採用されていたのであろう。17世紀末期の農書《農業全書》には，桑苗の生産技術から根刈仕立ての栽桑法に至る高度の技術が解説され，日本における刈桑仕立てを元禄期(1688‐1704)以降とする説に有力な根拠を与えている。…

※「刈桑仕立て」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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