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鴻巣市民の日 屈巣沼 Kusu marsh Traditional Cache

Hidden : 8/20/2021
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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                 掘り上げ田による新田開発

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           かつての屈巣沼掘り上げ田一帯

 

現在の屈巣沼弁天池とも言い、ヘラブナ釣りが盛んですが、かつての屈巣沼は、川里中央公園ゴルフ場を含む広大な自然沼でした。

この沼は江戸期の享保13年(1723)、掘り上げ田  (ほっつけ)として開発され、昭和後期まで水田として使用されてきました。

掘り上げ田は、湖沼を細長く掘り下げて、その土を隣に盛り上げ、幾筋もの短冊状の水田を造成する新田開発法です。

掘り下げた水路は掘り潰れと言われ、排水路や用水路に利用され、水田間を舟で移動するための水路にもなっていました。

屈巣沼掘り上げ田の一部は現在ゴルフ場になってますが、かつての掘り上げ田の名残で、コースは細長い池でセパレートされたフラットな直線コースとなっています。

 

Kusu-numa (Kusu-swamp) is a natural swamp that once has existed where the Golf Club and Kawasato Central Park are located today.
The swamp was developed as a dug-up rice field (Hottsuke) in 1723 during the Edo period (1603-1868) and was used as a paddy field until the late Showa period (1926-1989). Hottsuke is a method of developing new rice paddies by digging multiple narrow channels down into the swamp and heaping up dug soil beside the channels to create several paddy fields. The dug channels were called "Horitsubure" and were used for drainage and irrigation and for transporting boats between paddy fields. Today, a part of Kusu-numa's Hottsuke has been filled up and is used as a golf club, but the course still has remnants of the former Hottsuke with a flat and straight course flanked by long and narrow ponds.

 

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