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Ohechi Route 4-2 Shishi-gaki /猪垣(鹿垣)

長井坂の急な坂の上り口に数段の田んぼのあとがあって、今は杉林になっています。この田んぼの上側に田んぼを囲むように長い石の壁があります。長さは200m以上です。
There are several steps of rice field remains before steep slope of "Nagai-zaka". Now but this area is cedar forest. On the upper side of this remaining rice field, there is a long stone wall likes covering the rice field. The length of this wall is over 200m.

田んぼの石垣のてっぺんは水平ですが、この壁は水平にはなっていません。両側が石垣で、高さも幅も1m位です。この石垣は「猪垣」と呼ばれています。
Top of the stone wall of the ricefield is level. But this stone wall is not level, it has two sides of stone walls, the width is less than one meter and the hight is more than one meter. This wall is called "Shishi-gaki" or wild boar barrier.

猪垣は江戸時代から作られました。この壁の高さや構造では野生動物から農産物を完全に守ることはできません。入口に深い穴があったと言われています。壁に沿って歩いてきた動物を捕らえて食料にしたと考えられます。当時は動物性タンパク質が極度に不足していました。
Shishi-gaki was built in since Edo era. This barrier can not defend the agiricultual products completely against the wild animals by their hight and structure. It is said that there was a deep hole at the entrance. It is said that this barrier was made for catching the wild animals walking along the wall by hiding a hole in the opening of the wall. Because in those days people severely faced the lack of animal protein.

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by wakayamakiga | 2018-11-21 21:52 | Ohechi route 大辺路 | Comments(0)

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