Wood-grained

… [Kazuma Shimomura]
[Folklore]
The inhabitants engaged in forestry, hunting and peddling, and lived a self-sufficient life by cultivating slash-and-burn agriculture and rotating crops such as barnyard millet, foxtail millet, potatoes and upland rice. Folk customs that evoke ancient times remain in the songs and rituals that accompany these practices, and the work of cutting off the branches of large trees that cannot be cut down when slash-and-burn agriculture, and the songs that accompany this, are particularly well known. During the tree-cutting process, people sing work songs in the morning and climb large trees, not coming down to the ground until the work is finished in the evening, using poles to move from tree to tree, and eating, drinking and defecating are also done up in the trees.

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

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…【下村 数馬】
［民俗］
　住民は林業，狩猟のほか行商を営み，焼畑を開いてヒエ，アワ，いも，陸稲などを輪作し自給生活を営んだ。それらに伴う歌謡や祭儀には古代をしのばせる民俗が残存し，ことに焼畑を開く場合に伐採しえない大木の枝を切除する木おろし作業とそれに伴う歌謡はよく知られている。木おろしでは，朝の作業歌を歌って大樹に登ると夕方作業を終えるまで地に降りず，木から木に移るにはさおを用いてそれを伝わって移動し，飲食や排泄も樹上で行う。…

※「木おろし」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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