Cultivation in Spring and Autumn

A book on agriculture. The author was Tsuchiya Matasaburo, who lived in Gokuden, Ishikawa County, Kaga Province (Kanda, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture). The name he gave as Jikishinyanou in the preface was the name he took after he retired and became a monk. It was completed in 1707 (4th year of the Hoei period). It consists of 7 volumes in total. Volume 1 is about the annual agricultural calendar, Volume 2 is about rice, Volume 3 is about the types of plants for rice fields and sowing, with three grasses and four trees (about field crops, hemp, indigo, safflower, tea, paper mulberry, sumac, and mulberry), Volume 4 is about agricultural seasons, land use, water, seeds, dung, luck, rice field disease, and poor cultivation (about agricultural seasons, land, water, etc.), Volume 5 is about rice and wheat harvesting, and miscellaneous work for rice and wheat cultivation (about rice and wheat cultivation work), Volume 6 is about rice field, land division, land survey method, and toyota jiji (about how to measure the area of ​​rice fields), and Volume 7 is about agricultural implements (about agricultural implements). It is a guidebook for farmers with very specific descriptions of cultivation around Kanazawa.

[Yoichi Fukushima]

"Complete Collection of Japanese Agricultural Books 4: Kouka Shunju (1980, Rural Culture Association)" edited by Hisashi Horio et al.

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農学書。著者は加賀国石川郡御供田(ごくでん)（石川県金沢市神田）在住の土屋又三郎。自序に直心野衲(じきしんやのう)とあるのは、隠居、僧籍に入った後の名。1707年（宝永4）成立。全7巻よりなる。巻1は耕稼年中業事（1年の農事暦について）、巻2は稲之類、巻3は田畠蒔(でんはたまき)植物之類附三草四木（畑作物とアサ、アイ、ベニバナおよびチャ、コウゾ、ウルシ、クワについて）、巻4は農業時節地利用水種子糞運気田疾悪作（農業の季節、土地、水などの勘どころについて）、巻5は稲勘弁中打刈収、麦勘弁雑事（稲作、麦作の諸作業について）、巻6は田名田地割検地法、斗代違事（田の面積の測り方について）、巻7は農具之図（農具について）。金沢周辺の耕作について、きわめて具体的に記述された農民に対する指導書である。

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『堀尾尚志他編『日本農書全集4　耕稼春秋』（1980・農山漁村文化協会）』

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