Abstract
This comparative study of the villages Kamiseya and Shimoseya in a mountainous area of the Tango Peninsula in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan aims to clarify the area-specific formation and spatial distribution of water sources, to research the river routes, and to investigate the characteristics of local water uses for daily life and for agriculture under consideration of the specific topographic factors in each village. Additionally, the function and role of the water uses in the areas landscape formation is analyzed. As a result of the investigation, it was concluded that 1. Water sources, water transportation routes and water uses in each village are closely related to local topographic features. Irrigation channels especially are instrumental in landscape formation. 2. Easy access to water sources in one village compared to difficult access in the second village resulted in highly different land uses and thus in substantially different changes of the landscape. 3. Locally specific water use patterns have cultivated local indigenous life traditions and culture.
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