A case study of flood control schemes for the Kakehashi river and their socio-cultural consequences |
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| Authors: | T. M.S Nakagawa Y. Kitabatake S. Miya S. Kuroiwa N. Kitabatake |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Kanazawa Institute of Technology , Ishikawa, 921, Japan;2. Kyoto University , Kyoto, 606-01, Japan;3. Kaga, 922-02, Japan;4. Suginami, Tokyo, 167, Japan;5. The Komatsu-Tenmangu Shrine , Komatsu, 923, Japan |
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| Abstract: | SUMMARY This paper is concerned with a twenty-five year campaign against the relocation of the Komatsu-Tenmangu shrine as a result of the enlargement of the Kakehashi river. The Komatsu-Tenmangu shrine is an important cultural property of Japan, and was constructed by Toshitsune Maeda, the third dynasty of the Kaga clan in 1657. It is suggested that the primary reason why it took so long to settle this issue is a flaw in our social system for managing public works. It is concluded that preservation of cultural property is not always contrary to land development, and that the proposed procedures or something like them must be put into practice for the real expansion of our culture. |
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| Keywords: | river management cultural property land development flood control public works water's edge fauna flora |
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