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Japanese: 切替畑 - きりかえばた

A Japanese term for slash-and-burn farming, also known as nagihata, kirihatayama, and kirihata. The land is used as farmland after the forest is cut down, and is left fallow for a certain period of time when the soil loses its fertility. There is a theory that slash-and-burn farming is movable farmland cultivated by fire, and slash-and-burn farming is movable farmland not cultivated by fire, but in reality they are used synonymously. A distinction was made between inside-cut farming on tax-free land and outside-cut farming on taxable land. Slash-and-burn farming has been recorded in land survey books since the early modern period, and was an important form of land use in mountainous areas. It was practiced in the mountainous areas of Chugoku, Kyushu, and the Chubu region until around 1955.

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Japanese:

日本における焼畑の一呼称で，薙畑 (なぎはた) ，切畑山，切 (伐) 畑とも称される。森林を伐採したあと畑地として利用し，地味が衰えると一定期間休閑する畑。焼畑を火耕による移動性耕地，切替畑を火耕によらない移動性耕地とする説があるが，実際には焼畑と同義に使われている。無税地の内伐畑と課税地の外伐畑とに区別された。切替畑は近世初期の検地帳から記載されており，山間地域の重要な土地利用形態であった。中国，九州や中部の山地では 1955年頃まで行われていた。

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