Historical Studies on the System of Profit-Sharing Forest (No. 4) : On the Forests Planted by People in the Kumamoto-Clan

Ⅰ藩政時代 １．総説 ２．御留山 ３．御山特に新仕立御山 ４．里御山 ５．御藪 ６．百姓植立山 Ⅱ明治以降 １．部分木仕付条例以前 ２．部分木仕付条例以後 ３．明治19年以後 ４．国有林野法以後 ５．深葉山部分林について ResumeIn the province of Kumamoto-Clan there was no such system as the profit-sharing forest. But we could see the existence of many planted areas being made by people\u27s labor and expenses. These forests were called Oyama (sometimes Shinshitate-oyama), Oyabu, Satooyama and Otomeyama, and were objects of limited utilization for the rural people. At the beginning of the Meiji Era, the Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the Government to maintain the right of usage on those forests, and to share profit in kind or money. It was in the eighteenth year of Meiji. The sharing rate of profit was 30 for the government to 70 for the individual planter, but in the case of planting by a group of people, the rate was 70 to 30. In the plantations of the former Oyama, the profit was shared at the rate of two to one. In this way profit-sharing forests of relatively large area appeared. But these have gradually been lost by sharing, or by sale of the land. The profit-sharing forests have not developed in Kumamoto Prefecture under modern system as seen in Miyazaki and Kagoshima Prefectures