A Study on Historical Transition of Timber Use for Folk House Through Use of Common Forest in Tanekura, a Village in the Hida District of Gifu

Abstract

In Tanekura, a village in the Hida district of Gifu, many traditional wooden folk houses and storehouses have remained. This paper aims to clarify transition of timber use for folk houses thorough use of common forest there. Finally, the following were clari ed. Folk houses were constructed with kinds of timber which in uenced by trees in common forest. In end of Edo period, chestnut and oak were used for many parts of framework in folk houses. Gradually such tree species were replaces to sugi (Japanese cedar).

Optimizing species selection for the structural timbers of traditional farmhouses in a snowy rural area of northeastern Japan

“…Traditional artificial planting of cedar began on common land used by farmers throughout Japan during the late 17th and 18th centuries (Iwamoto, 2002; Totman, 1989). Although planted cedar does not grow well in mountainous areas with heavy snowfall (Masaki et al, 2004; Yokoi & Yamaguchi, 2000), by analyzing documents from 1844 and 1863 found in a snowy rural site in central Japan, Aoyagi et al (2018) determined that jointly managed cedar plantations supplied the house timbers. Because the cedar‐dominated houses in Tadami were mostly on terraces alongside a large river, cedar was likely planted on these terraces for timber use.…”