Abstract
This study investigated how local people in the late Meiji Period used forest resources in satoyama landscape or local village landscape in daily life. The investigation was based on two diaries, respectively written by a farmer and by local woodsmen of a rural village in the western part of Shiga Prefecture. The diaries, local records, and data such as topography and property distribution were analyzed and some of the elders in the village were interviewed in order to gain an understanding of the use of forest resources in that time. GIS-data of topography were drawn, and GIS was used to establish a forest resources pattern. According to GIS results, the farmer conducted 95 different kinds of activities related to forest resources from 1900-1912, compared to 207 activities by the woodsmen in the period of 1894-1905 and 1907-1909. Among these, some activities overlapped: 30 were common activities that provided resources for daily life and were essential in both occupations, such as the production of firewood or grass-cutting. The study revealed a wide variety of forest resources use (pine, Japanese cedar, Japanese cypress, grass, firewood) and a pattern that varied according to factors such as topography, property distribution and distance.
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