二月堂供田 - Nara

Small rice field

Can see rice fields next to a shrine in a mountain Feel novel

There is only one rice field in the ground of Todaiji Temple, but this rice field is called "Kidendo". The chopsticks and wharf used in the "water collecting" event is said to be made using the rice that is harvested in this rice field. This rice field has a square shape, but when I walked from north to south ... it was about 40 steps in my stride. Assuming a stride of 70 cm, it would be 1120 m2. If you look at it on the net, it is that it is 991.736 m2, so I saw this rice field being designed with "one". In other words, it means "one stone," which is the amount of rice that one person can eat for a year. However, since there are recent advances in science and technology and that Japanese people are not eating only rice, it seems that it is better to think that one person is rice for about five people. . Also, when I saw it, there are no rice fields in the precincts of Todaiji Temple except here. Therefore, considering the above things ... I think that there are not five monks in Todaiji Temple (about 20 to 30 people in one theory), it is impossible for this rice field to be self-sufficient in white rice in Todaiji Temple. By the way, it means that there were about 16 million stones in Taiji detection. However, I think that there were other people who also lived in the remote islands and deep mountains, so about 20 million people lived in this Japanese archipelago during the warring period. The family register made in the Meiji era is 33 million people. In the Edo period, we increased people 1.5 times. Furthermore, because there are currently around 120 million people, it has quadrupled compared to the Meiji era, and six times greater than the Warring period. Though ... Something is wrong with lack of labor ^ _ ^

Mochi rice was growing vigorously with beautiful greenery. It is said that glutinous rice such as offerings of the Great Buddha is cultivated.