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Miura Ayako

Asahikawa [1]

Daisetsuzan Flora and fauna

Neil Gordon Munro

Neil Gordon Munro (born Edinburgh 1863– died April 1942) was a Scottish doctor and anthropologist. Studied Medicine in Edinburgh. 1893 Director general Hospital in Yokohama. Became Chief Medical Officer in charge of the sanatorium in Karuizawa and started visiting Hokkaido. Munro's material destroyed in 1923 earthquake. By secured funding from Rockefeller Foundation for further work and built a house in Nibutani in Saru River Valley 1930. December 1932 house burned down.

Bibl.

Wp: Neil Gordon Munro (1863-1942) was a Scottish physician and anthropologist, notable as one of the first Westerners to study the Ainu people of Japan.

Ainu Creed and Cult read to page 112

Fosco Mariani

Visited Munro in Nibutani when he was dying

Hokkaidō

Past: Land formation, plate movements, geology, palaentology, prehistory and history (human)

Present: physical geography, flora and fauna, climate

Political geography

Culture: Transport, religion, agriculture, industry demographics

Daisetsuzan Kurodake

Good leaflet in Attack map case.

Otaru

Otaru is to Sappori what Yokohama is to Tokyo and Kobe is to Kyoto and Osaka - a port that serves as a gateway to the wider world. Like these cities, it has an attractive setting on the sea coast. Physically it ressembles Kobe with its streets sloping down from small woooded hills to the seafront.

Wealth of buildings from the Meji. Taiso and early Show periods.

Very touristy - many souvenir shops

Glass kombu coffee shops, sushi

Many of the sushi restauaurants are poor value.

Lake Onneto

Maps 1:25,000 NK-54-1-4-2 (Onneto) and NK-55-31-16-4 (Meakan-dake)

Park golf

Restaurants

PicNic English menu outdated, Italian lunch menu with pannini, pastas, cakes. Simple friendly

'Wild' onsen

Cheese Adonai

Creamery Adonai [2]

チーズ工房アドナイ 住所：北海道紋別郡興部町字興部 914-12 tel 0158 82 3133

Hidaka Mts: Trail to Mt Ponyaoromappu (1,406 m) and Mt Petegari (1,736 m)

Access via road off Route 55 in Taiki. 16 km track (13 km unpaved) took 1 hour to get to trailhead (notebook for departures) . Saw bears 28 Oct

Weekender 1999

Feriendorf Holiday Village. . . . The cost is ¥8,000 per person per night in peak seasons (Apr. 27-May 6 and Aug. 1-31) and ¥6,000 in other seasons.

Free stuff at Donguri-koen

Tokachi International Circuit: The largest and first international officially recognized racing circuit in Hokkaido with an area of 180 hectares. One circuit is 5.1 km, the longest in Japan after the Suzuka Circuit. If no races are scheduled, you can drive the track for a fee.

Nukanai Pony Farm (15 minutes from the hotel): A veterinarian founded this farm, 15 minutes from the hotel. Grass grows on the roofs of the log houses with black sheep grazing in the area. Barbecues and horseback riding are available at the facility which also has an officially recognized indoor arena for equestrian competition. Sixteen horses are stabled here, available for riding.

There is also a skating rink in Obihiro.

Flower Gardens: One is Shojiki-mura (Honest Village, 15 minutes from the hotel, no entry charge). A large garden park of 20 hectares where more than 1,000 species of flowers bloom naturally most of the year. It is so wide that electric carts are available.

Sohoro Resort: The resort is located near the top of the Karikachi Pass. Club Med is in charge of the recreational activities for guests of the resort. But paragliding classes are available if you make reservations. Driving and seeing the Hidaka Mountains coming closer and closer was fun in itself.

On my trip, I didn't see the following, but there are more places which must be as enjoyable as the above destinations.

Hiroo Seaside Park and Ogon Road (80 minutes to Hiroo from the hotel) You drive to Hiroo, a port town facing the Pacific, then drive along the long, winding coastal road stretching from Hiroo to the Cape of Erimo.

Hokkaido from Wikipedia

The island ranks 21st in the world by area. It is 3.6% smaller than the island of Ireland while Hispaniola is 6.1% smaller than Hokkaidō. By population it ranks 20th, between Ireland and Sicily. Hokkaidō's population is 4.7% less than that of the island of Ireland, and Sicily's is 12% lower than Hokkaidō's.

Hokkaido from an onsen website

Hokkaido is a relatively large island, roughly 8.3 km2 (22% of Japan). It is about 2.3 times the size of Taiwan (3.6 km2), yet a bit smaller than the entire nation of Korea (9.8 km2). The plains and fields covering this island will surely remind one of Hokkaido's vastnesses. It is within this area that over 800 hot springs are located. Since Hokkaido is a large island overflowing with hot springs, it came to be known as, The Land of Hot Springs.

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Tondenhei village

Takata, Wakizo (2001) Formation and Change of the Tondenhei Village in Eastern Hokkaido - A case study of Ota Village in Akkeshi Town Kushiro Public University of Economics, Regional Research No. 12 (in English)

Former samurai class village called Tondenhei-Son. Tonden = Frontier-settled , Hei=soldier I.e. post-1875 stationed farmer-soldiers. Tondenhei were pioneers of agriculture in Hokkaido Meiji perios = 37 Tondenhei villages with 7,300 Tondenhei (soldiers) representing population of 40,000 people. Most Tondenhei were in west and central Hokkaido: only 4 in E Hok (2 in Nemuro, 2 in Akkeshi). Ota = 117 households - dairy farming 1990=100th anniv of Ota Tondenhei

Origin of system to provide occupation for unemployed samurai and counter possible Russian expansion.

1. Kaitakushi Period (1869-1881)

1869 Kaitakushi (Development Commission) est to develop Hokkaidm and encourage migration 1871 Kaitakushi HQ started to be built in Sapporo 1872-81 Kaitakushi 10 year plan 1874 Kaitakushi formulated Tondenhei-kisoku (Colonial Troops Regulations) 1875 First Tondenhei settled in Kotoni near Sapporo

2. Three prefectures and one bureau period 1882-1885 1882 Kaitakushi abolished, Hokkaido divided into three prefectures:Hakodate, Sapporo and Nemuro 1883 Hokkaido Enterprise Administration Bureau established to carry on from Kaitakushi (but didn't develop) After 1884 samurai settled in Iwamizawa, Kikonai and Kushiro 1885 new Tondenhei-kisoku under Army Ministry

3. Early Hokkaido Govt and 10 year plan period (1886-1909) 1886 Kok pref govt est and its new building finished in 1888 1890 Tondenhei-kisoku relaxed and common people could apply to be Tondenhei 1899 last Tondenhei village est in Shibetsu and Kenbuchi 1900 Tondenhei recruitment ended 1904 Tondenhei-kisoku abolished - Tondenhei villages became ordinary ones. Population increased rapidly 1909=1,540,000 1901 Hok 10 year plan implemented

Tondenhei villages divided into: a. Shizoku (samurai) (13 est. 1875-1890) b. Heimin (common people) (24 est. 1891-1899)

Each Tondenhei had 5,000 tsubo (1.65 ha.) 1875-78 and a house etc also farming and military training 10,000 tsubo to 1890.

Most villages became rice farming. No Tondenhei in Tokachi

Ota Village named after Ota Monsuke (of Akkeshi). Rectangular village 18 km by 43 km June 1890: 220 housholds Pop 1,165 (male 690, female 475) +July 1890: another 220 households (male 546, female 448) People were all samurai - from various Han in Honshu. Houses were built by prisoners. Tondenhei decided them by lottery. Houses 9 m by 6.3 m Company HQ officers led by farming and military training.

Tondenhei service was 3 years, after that allotments and benefits were cut off and some suffered severely. (After service there was one reserve duty period of 4 years. Many Tondenhei had to get additional jobs finding it difficult to subsist on agriculture. Land granted in te village actually not suitable for agriculture. Number of households peaked at 540 in 1893 the number declined rapidly to only 165 in 1910.

Ota district is now large scale dairy farm. Pop began to increase in 1916 with immigrants in nearby Chambetsu area 15k away in better farming area - 92 husehold by 1918. 1923 Kyoka imin (licensed immigrations) began to settle keeping horse and cattle. 1940 = total households 370 1955 area divided into Shibecha Town and Akkeshi Town.

Dairy farming introduced in 1910s and developed in 1930s.

1933 'Five Year Agriculture Plan for Konsen' (Nemuro/Kushiro) aimed at agricultural improvements to make it more suitable for climate. This encouraged upland crop farming transformation to 'Shuchiku' (cattle) farming.

Development of Dairy Farming.

According to Hokkaido research Report (1937): 1936 Tondenhei= 157 households (cattle farming) /Chambetsu=193 (mixed farming)

Dairy farming deveoped after the war. Ayrshire were replaced by Holsteins producing more milk.

A New Hokkaido History (1973): 5 main types of villge:

a. Shizoku ijyu-son (Samurai migration) b. Tondenhei-son c. Shokumin kukaku-son (land settlement zoning village) - common d. Non Shokumin kukaku-son (unplanned?) - in old developed areas or areas were land was scarce e. Kosaku nojo-son (large land owners using farm labourers)

Farming village in Eastern Hokkaido

Takata, Wakizo (2004) Formation and Characteristics of a Farming Village in Eastern Hokkaido - A case study in the Kushiro Area Kushiro Public University of Economics, Regional Research No. 13 (in English)

Hokkaido: largest prefecture 22% of land area but pop 5,680,000 only 4.5 %. Relatively high % of lad used for agric. Hok has 25% of cultivated land in Japan. % of paddy is low, upland felds and grasslands high.

Cultiated land per farming household = 17.2 ha. = 13.9 times other prefectures. Hok farming households = 2.2% of Japan's but prodce 11.8% of total production.

Hok has 49% of Japan's dairy cattle, 15% of Japan's beef cattle.

Hokkaio is equal in size to Austria.

Kushiro 7.2% of Hok land area but only 4.8 of its population, now decreasing since 1990s. Basic industries fishing, coal mining, pulp paper

Last coal mine in Japan Taiheiyo Coal Mine closed in 2002

Shibecha History tarted with prison est in 1885. Licensed immig system started 1923 and led to many immigs coming to shibecha. Dairy farming encouraged after 1933. After 1945 more settlement encouraged (46,000 households came).

Soils: peat and volcanic ash not good for agric. Rice impossible. Formerly know as the "Kingdom of Horse Production" but horse breeeding declined because of no demand now from either Army or agric.

Settlements

Nijibetsu District

In 1929, 350 households of licensed immigs came but after probs 1932-3 only 100 remained. O arrival each given 10 ha of uncleared land. After clearing land for 5 years they were supposed to be given the land but only 164 out of 348 households were given it. Some gave the land back and some were forced off it.

Eraly crops: vegetables, pumpkin, buckwheat, potatoes.

From 1937 demand for horses.

Shizen-son naural village Gyosei-so - administration village, formed after 1868 and cmposed of several buraku. Most Hok farmers are 3rd or 4th generation

Perhaps Kushiro vilages shuld be called "Kaitaku-son'" - pioneer villages

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Becoz of sit, Governor of Hokkaido visited in 1932 and later 5 year Agric plan introduced. Dairy farming difficult to introduce becoz farmers had no experience of it.

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