Kanpo flood level cliff marker - Kanpo flood level cliff marker

Japanese: 寛保洪水位磨崖標 - かんぽこうずいいまがいひょう
Kanpo flood level cliff marker - Kanpo flood level cliff marker

…The most famous flood in the early modern period was the Edo Flood of 1742, which is said to have killed more than 3,900 people. In Nokamigo, Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, there remains a historic site, the Kanpo Flood Level Cliff Marker, which tells us that the water level of the main Arakawa River rose by 60 shaku (about 18 m). After the great flood of 1910, major repairs were made to the downstream area of ​​the Arakawa River. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Kanpo Flood Level Cliff Marker" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…近世の水害で特に著名なものは寛保2年江戸洪水(1742)で,死者3900余人と伝えられている。秩父郡長瀞町野上下郷には,荒川本流の水位が60尺(約18m)上昇したことを物語る史跡〈寛保洪水位磨崖標〉が残っている。1910年の大洪水後,荒川下流部では大改修が行われた。…

※「寛保洪水位磨崖標」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。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Kingdom of Cambodia - Cambodia (English spelling) Cambodia

>>:  Campo Grande (English spelling)

Recommend

Tac-jǒn-hö-thong (English: Tac-jǒn-hö-thong)

A legal code from the late Joseon Dynasty of Korea...

Cut Back

…It is said that the “grammar of cinema” was crea...

Rashomon vine (Meehania urticifolia)

A perennial plant of the Lamiaceae family. It is f...

Bronnen, A.

...The ambiguity of self-negating petty-bourgeois...

Micropsitta bruijnii (English spelling)

...During the breeding season, they dig burrows i...

Todogasaki

A cape located at the eastern end of the Omoe Pen...

Earth radiation

Radiation emitted by the atmosphere or the earth&#...

Antipodes - Antipodes

…Pliny the Elder's representative work, Natur...

Extreme exercise

The movement of the spatial axis relative to the ...

speleology

…Spelunking and potholing are also used rarely as...

Nine Academic Associations Union - Kyuugakairengo

…Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sw...

Bunsei Temple and Shrine Town Writings

This is a survey book that the Edo Shogunate had E...

Jussieu, ALde (English spelling) JussieuALde

… The angiosperms contain about 370 families, 12,...

Stamping

… [Katori Tadahiko] [Western] In the West, engrav...

Okawa [city] - Okawa

This city occupies the Tsukushi Plain on the left ...