おもしろ体験博物館
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Japanese Folk Art Museum
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7.農の道具
Peasants' tools
足踏水車
Portable man-powered irrigating wheel
この道具は農夫が田んぼまで手で担いでいき、あぜ道越しに小川から水を引いた灌漑用の水車です。農夫は棒をあぜに突き刺して体を支えながら水車の上に乗り足で回しました。
This apparatus used by farmers is a man-powered water
wheel to irrigate water to a rice field. A farmer carried it to a rice
field with a pole and he set the device to a ridge of a rice field by a stream
and stuck a pole to the ground and by holding on to it, he mounted himself on
to the device and turned the wheel with his feet to irrigate water.
Professor E.S.Morse, a zoologist who came to Japan in the Meiji Period, showed an
interest to this device and described it with his sketch in his diary.
おもしろ体験博物館江戸民具街道
神奈川県足柄上群中井町久所４１８
0465-81-5339
Japanese Folk Art Museum "Edo Mingu Kaido"
Address: 418 Kuzo, Nakai-machi, Ashigara-kamigun, Kanagawa-ken, Japan
Tel: 0465-81-5339