HISTORICAL CLIMATE ADAPTATION PROJECT Project Leader Takeshi NAKATSUKA

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
 

ACTIVITIES

2018-2019

SUBJECT
Final General Meeting

DATE
January 26-27, 2019
 
    Jan 26
  • Part1 : Overall Summary of the project
  • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The result of the integration of arts and sciences and the course of project for 9 years.
  • ・ SANO Masaki :The result of paleoclimatology
  • ・ ITO Keisuke - the result of history
  • ・ HIGAMI Noboru – the result of archaeology
  • Part 2 : Evaluation by inside of the project (1st section)
  • ・ Comments by members (*) and discussion
  • *commentators KIKUCHI Isao, TAMURA Noriyoshi, KAMATANI Kaoru, YOSHIMURA Kei,UEMURA Ryu
  • Part 3 : Evening Meeting
  • Jan 27
  • Part 4 : Evaluation by outside of the project
  • ・ Comments by non-member commentators(*) and questions.
  • *commentators YUMOTO Takakazu(Primate research Institute Kyoto university ・former PL of RIHN/comments in writing), YOSHIDA Takehito(current PL of RIHN), NAKAMURA Shinichiro(Graduate school of Engineering, Nagoya University)
  • Part 5 :Evaluation by inside of the project (2nd section)
  • ・ Comments by members (1*) and discussions.
  • *commentators KAWAHATA Hodaka、MATSUGI Takehiko、HAKOZAKI Masataka, INOUE Tomohiro
  • Part 6 :Prospectus after the project
  • A. Final check of a compilation of the outcomes of the research
  • B. Sharing information for the development of research.
  • C. Discussion
  • Part 7 :Overall of the general meeting

SUBJECT
Meeting for Nakatsuka’s Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research

DATE
Aug 18, 2018
 
  • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi:  Aims for Nakatsuka’s Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research achievement so far and future issueas based on tree ring oxygen isotope
  • ・ KOBAYASHI Kenichi : Situations and perspectives of the chronological dating of earthenware typologically in the Jomon era.
  • ・ FUJIO Shinichiro: Situations and perspectives of the chronological dating of earthenware typologically in the Yayoi era.
  • ・ NAKAKUBO Tatsuo: Situations and perspectives of the chronological dating of earthenware typologically in the Tumulus period.
  • ・Offer of topics of the situation of one`s research related to Nakatsuka’s Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research.
  • ・ Plenary Discussion

SUBJECT
Meeting for the publication for an international audience

DATE
Aug 6-7, 2018
 
    Aug 7
  • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims, cautionary note for the publication for an international audience Opening remarks
  • ・Introduction and discussion of the draft of each chapter.
  • ・ Chapter 1> Japanese history: An overview(Batten)
  • ・ Chapter 2> Climate change and its relationship to historical events and trends in Japan: The potential for a rewriting of history(Nakatsuka)
  • ・ Chapter 3> Theoretical perspectives: Resilience(Brown)
  • ・ Chapter 4> Climate in the 10th-5th c. BCE and introduction of wet-rice agriculture (Fujio)
  • ・ Chapter 5> Climate in the 2nd c. and the Yayoi-Kofun transition(Wakabayashi)
  • ・ Chapter 6> Climate in the 6th c. and the emergence of a centralized state(Imazu)
  • ・ Chapter 7> Climate in the 10th-12th c. and decline of a centralized state(Tamura)
Aug 8
  • continuation of Introduction and discussion of the draft of each chapter.
  •  Chapter 8> Climate in the 14th-16th c. and warrior society(Ito T)
  •  Chapter 9> Climate in the 17th c. and agricultural expansion during the Little Ice Age(Takei)
  •  Chapter 10> Climate in the 18th-19th c. and the development of a market economy(Takatsuki)
  •  Plans from now on and cautionary note for writing the manuscript by the end of September.
  • 2017-2018

    SUBJECT
    Meeting for Nakatsuka’s Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research

    DATE
    March6, 2018
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: 〝Review of background, aims, and plan″ and 〝The main issue in 2017″for Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research.
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Establishment of new chronological basis by tree-ring oxygen isotope, and dating in sites in Western Japan.
    • ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka: Establishment of new chronological basis by tree-ring oxygen isotope, and dating in sites in Eastern Japan.
    • ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka: Establishment of new chronological basis by tree-ring oxygen isotope, and dating in sites in Korea.
    • ・Tasks going forwardⅠ: Prospects for collecting the excavated woods(Samples)
    • 1. Samples for Establishment of new chronological basis.
    • 2. Samples for replacement from pottery chronology to chronological age.
    • 3. Samples for archaeologically important chronological dating .
    • ・Tasks going forwardⅡ: Analysis – Various approach in analysis in order to improve the number of success and success rate of dating.
    • ・Tasks going forwardⅢ: Toward building the systems.
    • 1. Expand the users’ base.
    • 2. Establish more than 1 or even many base laboratories.
    • 3. Technology transfer to local governments, or private sectors.
    • ・Plenary Discussion.

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory / Ancient history group

    DATE
    January 13-14, 2018
     
    January 13
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Activities of Historical Climate Adaptation Project and the situation toward publishing the books.
    • ・ MURAKAMI Mayuko: Relationship between ancient coin circulation and climate variations.
    • ・ YAMADA Masahisa: Geomortphology and human habitats in southwest Kanto region since late Yayoi related to climate variations.
    • ・Plenary Discussion 1 : Final situation of paleoclimatological data.
    January 14
  • MURAKAMI Yumiko: Development of villages during middle Yayoi in Shiga Prefecture area.
  • KOBAYASHI Kenichi : Variation in middle Jomon(4-5ka) village around the region in southwest Kanto region near Tokyo and its relation to climate
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  • Plenary Discussion 2 : Final confirmation for publishing the books.
  • SUBJECT
    General Meeting of 2017

    DATE
    January 6-7, 2018
     
    January 6
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Activities of Historical Climate Adaptation Project so far and the aim of this General meeting.
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru : The relationship between Menjo, tax account to villages, precipitation, and temperature.
    • ・TAKATSUKI Yasuo, SHIBAMOTO Masahiko : The relationship between rice price in Osaka, precipitation, and temperature.
    • ・YAMADA Kosei : The relationship between Development and trends in Ryukyu in Kasei period, precipitation, and temperature.
    • ・SASOU Mamoru : The relationship between long term transition of landscape, and precipitation.
    • ・TAMURA Noriyoshi : Handling with temperature and precipitation in Medieval history.
    • ・Plenary Discussion 1 : Roles of each in humanities and sciences in terms of research in history.
    January 7
    • ・ITO Keisuke: Contrast between Kamakura Ibun and precipitation, temperature.
    • ・IMAZU Katsunori: Contrast between Rikkokushi, the six ancient Japanese historical collections complied between Nara and Heian periods, and precipitation, temperature.
    • ・HIGAMI Noboru: Contrast between the change in woodenware and precipitation.
    • ・FUJIO Shinichiro: Contrast between rice farming in the Yayoi period and precipitation, temperature.
    • ・Plenary Discussion 2 : What data would you like to receive and/or provide each other between researchers in humanities and sciences?
    • ・Plenary Discussion 3 : Tasks and the prospects toward summarizing the project’s results.

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    September 30, 2017
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
    • ・ ITO Toshikazu: Change in agricultural production of the manor system in 14th and 15th centuries in Yano-sho, Harimanokuni
    • ・ TAKAGI Tokuro: Climate change in 11th and 12th centuries and its effects on the formation of the manorial system
    • ・ Plenary Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory / Ancient history group

    DATE
    September 24, 2017
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of the aims
    • ・ FUJIO Shinichiro: Spread of rice-paddy cultivation / people’s migration, and climate change In earlier, middle, and end Yayoi period
    • ・ IKUTA Atsushi: Change in the weather and problems related to grains in 6th and 7th centuries
    • ・ Plenary Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    September 9-10, 2017
     
      September 9
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
    • ・ KORIYAMA Shiho: Biko chochiku seido (emergency reserve system) and climate change
    • ・ TAKAHASHI Miyuki: Population, households, and natural environment in early modern Japan
    • ・ SATO Daisuke: Sendai Domain administration, weather and climate
      September 10
    • ・ WATANABE Koichi: State and private responses to the complex succession of disasters in Edo during the 1780s
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Agronomic performance and climate change in early modern Japan
    • ・ Plenary Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Korea-Japan dendrochronology workshop towards a new phase of archaeology

    DATE
    August 20, 2017
    VENUE
    Woori Research Institute for Cultural Properties
     
    • ・SANO Masaki :Opening Remarks
    • ・NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress and prospects in oxygen isotopic dendrochronology in Japan
    • ・SEO Jeong-Wook: Summary of dendrochronology in Korea
    • ・SANO Masaki : Significance of joint research by Japan and Korea seen through the pre analysis of trees in Korea
    • ・Lim Seon-mi: Outline of Toerae-Ri site.
    • ・HAKOZAKI Masataka: The result of dendro oxygen isotope data of excavated woods at the site in wetland in south Korea
    • ・KIMURA Katsuhiko: Analysis in oxygen isotope in excavated woods from the sites on Japan Sea coast, and its application of archaeology
    • ・HAKOZAKI Masataka: Veryfing the dating based on the dendro oxygen isotope and SD775 14C-spike by the eruption of Baekdu Mountain in 10th century
    • ・FUJIO Shinichiro: The expanding of the cultural complex from south Korean peninsula to north-western Kyushu, Japan in the first millennium B.C.
    • ・KOBAYASHI Kenichi: Chronological studies at the Radiocarbon dating of the Neolithic pottery, between the Jomon period at Japan and the Neolithic of Korea.
    • ・Plenary Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    August 18, 2017
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Current situation of the whole project
    • ・ SASOU Mamoru: Transition and background of the landscape of villages and arable land in ancient and medieval era – Focusing on microgeomophologic analysis and land use transformation eastern coast of Tokyo bay
    • ・ KIKUCHI Isao: Variety of rice and treatment in the cold weather – rice producing in early modern Tohoku area
    • ・ NISHIYACHI Seibi: Dealings in real estate and climatic disasters in the medieval era
    • ・ Plenary Discussion: Schedule and guide for writing the book
    • The present state of writing and brainstorming for "How will the viewpoint of medieval history change? Or not?" chapter 3 in Volume 1

    SUBJECT
    Meeting for the Publication for an International Audience

    DATE
    Aug 7-8, 2017
     
      Aug 7
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims
    • ・ Bruce L. BATTEN: The present state of discussion with the publisher and the future plan
    • ・ Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch1,2,3)
    • Chapter 1> Japanese history: An overview (BATTEN)
    • Chapter 2> Climate change and its relationship to historical events and trends in Japan: The potential for a rewriting of history (NAKATSUKA)
    • Chapter 3> Theoretical perspectives: Resilience (BROWN & BATTEN)
    • ・ Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch4,5,9)
    • Chapter 4> Climate in the 10th-5th c. BCE and introduction of wet-rice agriculture (FUJIO)
    • Chapter 5> Climate in the 2nd c. and the Yayoi-Kofun transition (WAKABAYASHI)
    • Chapter 9> Climate in the 17th c. and agricultural expansion during the Little Ice Age (TAKEI)
    • ・ Plenary Discussion1: Plan of the publication and the theory of resilience
      Aug 8
    • ・ Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch7,8)
    • Chapter 7> Climate in the 10th-12th c. and decline of a centralized state (TAMURA)
    • Chapter 8> Climate in the 14th-16th c. and warrior society (ITO T)
    • ・ Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch10,6)
    • Chapter 10> Climate in the 18th-19th c. and the development of a market economy (TAKATSUKI)
    • Chapter 6> Climate in the 6th c. and the emergence of a centralized state (IMAZU: data only)
    • ・ Plenary Discussion2: What type of book can be published with comprehensive thoughts?

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory / Ancient history group

    DATE
    July 29-30, 2017
     
      July 29
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Confirmation of paleoclimate data which can be provided, the progress of the publication of the project result
    • ・ HIGAMI Noboru: Village transition and climate change from Yayoi to the early tumulus period in Owari plain
    • ・ INOUE Tomohiro: The management of paddy field and change in precipitation in Yayoi era
    • ・ Providing the overview of manuscripts for the publication for an international audience(1)
      July 30
    • ・ MATSUGI Takehiko: Population pattern and Environmental change from Yayoi to the tumulus period
    • ・ Providing the overview of manuscripts for the publication for an international audience(2)
    • ・ Plenary Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    July 1-2, 2017
     
      July 1
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Final perspective of paleoclimate reconstruction data
    • ・ SANO Masaki: The goal on paleoclimate reconstruction in Japan and the world
    • ・ ENDO Takahiro: The Kabu-ido system –from perspective of climate change
    • ・ HIRANO Tetsuya: Climate change and Social reaction in northern Kanto region in late modern era -from Bunka, Bunsei era to Tenpo era
    • ・ TAKEI Koichi: Climate in Bunkaki era and the politics in Kaga Domain
    • ・ SATO Hiroyuki: Climate change and community in south Kyushu area
    • ・ WATANABE Koichi: Review the early modern history from the angle of climate change – quantity, system, technology -putting history of study in order for prologue
      July 2
    • ・ YAMADA Kosei: Disasters and the Ryukyu society in Kasei era –from "putting the village back on the track by the top" to spontaneous relieve
    • ・ TAKATSUKI Yasuo, MURA Kazuaki: Climate change and the central market in early modern era
    • ・ NAKAYAMA Tomihiro: Disasters and famines in the Tenmei and Tempou periods, and the social reaction of Hiroshima-han (Hiroshima Domain)
    • ・ Plenary Discussion
          

    SUBJECT
    Joint Meeting of the Paleoclimatology Group and the Climatology Group

    DATE
    June 15-16, 2017
     
      June 15
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Features of climate in Japan and tasks for paleoclimate reconstruction
    • ・ SANO Masaki: The goal on paleoclimate reconstruction in Japan and the world
    • ・ SANO Masaki, NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Precipitation -Dendro oxygen isotope data
    • ・ SHO Kenjiro: Possibility of dating using intra annual analysis of oxygen isotopes
    • ・ HIRANO Jumpei, ZAIKI Masumi, ICHINO Mika: Precipitation and Temperature –historical documents Paleoclimate reconstruction based on historical paleoclimate record - temperature, precipitation, intensity of solar radiation extracted, and typhoons
    • ・ KAWAHATA Hodaka: Water temperature, temperature -sediments(ancient society in Japan produced by the events occurred by cold climate)
    • ・ ABE Osamu, MORIMOTO Maki: Water temperature, Salinity-Coral(Reconstruction of ocean environment in the past using)
    • ・ SAKAMOTO Minoru: To realize the precise dating by carbon-14 analysis
    • ・ Plenary Discussion 1
      June 16
    • ・ YASUE Koh: Temperature –width and density of tree ring, Reconstruction of temperature using tree-ring in northern Japan
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: Climate disasters Komonjo, ancient documents
    • ・ TSUSHIMA Akane: The integration of paleoclimate data by statistic approach
    • ・ YOSHIMURA Kei: The integration of paleoclimate data based on circulation Model of data assimilation
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Development and upgrading in dating system by tree ring oxygen isotope data
    • ・ KIMURA Katsuhiko, HAKOZAKI Masataka: The space-time expansion and the application of the oxygen isotope chronology
    • ・ Plenary Discussion 2
          

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    April 8, 2017
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of research in the project. The latest paleoclimate data. Plan of publication
    • ・ TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: Basic consideration on disasters in KamiShimoKuzenosho, Toji-owned Yamashironokuni
    • ・ TAMURA Noriyoshi: Preliminary consideration in change precipitation and prayer for rain
    • ・ TAMURA Noriyoshi: Chapter 3 “How will they look at medieval history in Japan in a different light?” in Part 1
    • ・ Plenary Discussion


    2016-2017

          

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient History Group

    DATE
    March 29, 2017
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updates on recent progress in publishing the project results, and the introduction of the latest paleoclimate data
    • ・ WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: The settlements pattern from early agricultural society to the establishing of ancient state in central Japan: in the context of climate change
    • ・ IMADU Katsunori: Observations about population dynamics and environment in ancient Japan – 3 tasks
    • 1.The formation of kings by succession and a sense of disaster – structure fluctuation of archipelagic society in 6th century
    • 2.Population dynamics in ancient Japan and reproduction system under the Ritsuryo Code
    • 3.General crisis in latter half of 9th century – tectonic disasters and climate problems
    • ・ BATTEN Bruce: Work progress for publishing for an international audience
    • ・ Plenary discussion: Editing and writing for vol.3 (by Pre History/Ancient history group) of a set of project’s results in Japanese version


    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    February 21-22, 2017
     
      February 21
    • ・ WATANABE Koichi: State and private responses to the complex succession of disasters in Edo during the 1780s
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of the aim
    • ・ Report of conception of the monograph for the book by each group member
      February 22
    • ・ Discussion about vol.5 & 6 of a set of project’s results in 6 volumes in Japanese version
    • ・ Plenary discussion for publication

    SUBJECT
    Editing Meeting for vol.1 of a set of project’s results in 6 volumes in Japanese version

    DATE
    January 28, 2017
     

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient history group

    DATE
    December 24, 2016
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updates on recent progress and the plan in the project as a whole
    • ・ KOBAYASHI Kenichi: Change in settlements in south-west Kanto and the possibility from mid to mid-late Jomon-era and the possibility of the influence by climate change
    • ・ YAMADA Masahisa: Geomorphological formation and formation, extinction, and moving of residential area and arable land in Kanto region from late Jomon era to medieval era
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    October 23, 2016
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Present research situation of the project
    • ・ TAKAHASHI Miyuki: Population Data in Tokugawa Japan
    • ・ SATO Hiroyuki: Climate Change in Tanegashima Island in the Early Modern Period
    • ・ HIRANO Junpei: Perspective and current situation of climate reconstruction based on historical record of climate
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient history group

    DATE
    September 24-25, 2016
     
      September 24
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updating the project research and toward the publishing the series of the project’s result
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress in the analysis and dating of archaeological woods done at RIHN
    • ・ KIMURA Katsuhiko: Progress in the analysis and dating of archaeological woods done at Fukushima university
    • ・ INOUE Tomohiro: Tree-ring dating of excavated woods from Ikeshima- Fukumannji Site and its archaeological interpretation
    • ・ WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: Updating the data collecting of ruins of settlements
    • ・ Plenary Discussion1: Direction of the research by the Prehistory and ancient group
      September 25
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Long-term research plan of oxygen isotopic dendrochronology
    • ・ Plenary discussion2: Requests for dating based on tree ring oxygen isotope measurement and plans for publishing

    SUBJECT
    Joint Meeting of the Paleoclimatology Group and the Climatology Group

    DATE
    September 23-24, 2016
     
      September 23
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updating the recent progress and toward the publishing the series of the project’s result
    • ・ ZAIKI Masumi and HIRANO Junpei: Results in Historical climatology in the early modern era (Seasonal variations of the fine weather rate in Edo Tenpo and Tenmei periods)
    • ・ ICHINO Mika: Reconstructed intensity of solar radiation based on historical documents
    • ・ SHO Kenjiro: Seasonal variations of hydroclimate in the Kyoho period as reconstructed from intra-annual analysis of oxygen isotopes
    • ・ TSUSHIMA Akane: Climate reconstruction for Miyagi using tree-ring oxygen isotopes
    • ・ YOSHIMURA Kei: Data Assimilation of paleoclimatological data
    • ・ Discussion1: How far are we going to work on the reconstruction of paleoclimate in this project?
      September 24
    • ・ YASUE Koh: Temperature reconstruction for central Japan based on tree-ring density
    • ・ KUBOTA Yuichi: Temperature reconstruction for Tohoku based on tree-ring density of archaeological woods
    • ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka: Updates on recent progress in analysis of archaeological woods and trees in Tohoku area
    • ・ Discussion2: Let's talk where we left off yesterday. Plan for publishing

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    September 10, 2016
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole, the publishing plan, results of the workshop: Towards Mutual Understanding: Issues Related to Publishing for an International Audience, and the Meeting of the Categorization and Synthesis Group
    • ・ TAMURA Noriyoshi: Climate change in 10th to 12th centuries and the formation of medieval Japan
    • ・ MIZUNO Shoji: agricultural disaster in 11th and 12th centuries and the establishment of medieval society
    • ・ TAKAGI Tokuro: Climate change in 11th to 12th centuries and the influence to the Manor system
    • ・ SASOU Mamoru: Change in the environment the history of villages and arable lands
    • ITO Keisuke: Quantitative analysis of the number of documents using the CD-ROM version of Kamakura Ibun and climate change
    • NISHIYACHI Seibi: Change of the number of land deeds in Izuminokuni in late medieval era and climate data
    • ITO Toshikazu: (interim report) Change in agricultural production in manor In 14th to 16th centuries – in Yamashironokuni, Kuze-kamishimonosho, Kamikatsuranosho, and Yanosho in Harimanokuni
    • TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: An essay of drought damages in the Muromachi era in Kami-Kuze-no-sho estate in Yamashiro province
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Categorization and Synthesis Group

    DATE
    August 9, 2016
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Why should we synthesize project research result?–Purpose and subjects of categorization and integration-
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: The analysis of quantitative relationship between the number of documents searched Kamakuraibun by keywords and climate change
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Research and data analysis in Menjo (tax accounts to villages) and Shumon-aratamechou (religious inquisition registration)
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: A trial toward "categorization" of spatio-temporal distribution of societal climate adaptation using the "Comprehensive Chronological table of peasant rebellion" and "National Census by Tokugawa Shogunate"
    • ・ Plenary discussion: How to proceed quantitative analyses of project data comparable among prehistorical, ancient, medieval, and early modern periods?
          

    SUBJECT
    Workshop: Towards Mutual Understanding: Issues Related to Publishing for an International Audience

    DATE
    August 8-9, 2016
     
      August 8
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims and overview of results to be publicized for an international audience: Based on the results of the questionnaire
    • ・ Bruce L. BATTEN, Philip C. BROWN: Review of recent literature on climate history and environmental history in the English speaking world: From the point of view of history and archaeology
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Review of recent literature on climate history and environmental history in the English speaking world: From the point of view of paleoclimatology and paleoenvironmental studies
    • ・ Bruce L. BATTEN, Philip C. BROWN: Review of representative literature on Japanese climatology and environmental history in the Anglosphere
    • ・ Bruce L. BATTEN: Flow of academic publishing in the Anglosphere
    • ・ Philip C. BROWN: Proposal for themes and content that each member should work on to publicize project results overseas
    • ・ Plenary Discussion 1: What issues need to be addressed in order to publicize project results for an international audience?
      August 9
    • Outline of each group’s findings based on the results of questionnaire
    • ・ Prospects for results from the Paleoclimatology group
    • ・ Prospects for results from the Climatology group
    • ・ Prospects for results from the Prehistory/Ancient History group
    • ・ Prospects for results from the Medieval History group
    • ・ Prospects for results from the Early Modern History group
    • ・ Plenary Discussion 2: Specific procedures: How and what are we going to publish for an international audience?

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    July 2-3, 2016
     
      July 2
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of research in the project
    • ・ ENDO Takahiro: The Kabu-ido system in the Fukuzuka ring-levee area
    • ・ NAKAYAMA Tomihiro: Weather in summer in the Tenmei and Tenpo periods and society in Hiroshima-han (Hiroshima Domain)
    • ・ Plenary discussion
      July 3
    • ・ HIRANO Junpei: Comparison of the distribution of climate in the Tenmei and Tenpo periods based on paleoclimate data reconstructed from historical documents
    • ・ Joint discussion by the Early Modern History group and the Paleoclimatology group

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    April 24, 2016
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: Review of responses to climate during the Kamakura era using the CD-ROM version of Kamakura Ibun
    • ・ TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: Research achievements and issues regarding Kamishimo Kuze-no-sho estate: Through the application of paleoclimatological data
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient History Group

    DATE
    April 10, 2016
     
    • ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka: Toward temperature reconstruction for the ancient period using tree ring maximum density data from northern Japan
    • ・ SANO Masaki: Recent progress in producing tree ring oxygen isotope data from highly degraded archaeological wood
    • ・ INOUE Tomohiro: Intensive analysis of tree ring dating for excavated wooden artifacts and its implications
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Toward the overall compilation of excavation data (reports) on habitation and burial sites
    • ・ Plenary discussion


    2015-2016

    SUBJECT
    The 125th RIHN Seminar

    DATE
    March 24, 2016
     
    • Speaker: Raymond S. BRADLEY
    • Norse settlers in the North Atlantic: History, archaeology, and paleoclimate

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    February 13, 2016
     
    • ・ TAKATSUKI Yasuo, MURA Kazuaki: Climate records and the rice market in Osaka: Focusing on times of famine in the mid- to late early modern era
    • ・ KORIYAMA Shiho: Biko chochiku seido (emergency reserve system) and climate change: Focusing on the Chugoku and Tohoku regions in the early modern era

    SUBJECT
    2nd General Meeting

    DATE
    January 10-11, 2016
     
    全体会議
      January 10
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the project as a whole
    • ・ SANO Masaki: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Climatology and Paleoclimatology groups
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Early Modern History group
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Medieval History group
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Prehistory/Ancient History group
    • ・ KAWAHATA Hodaka: Temperature reconstruction based on alkenone data from sediment cores
    • ・ SASOU Mamoru: Change in villages and arable land and environmental change along the east coast: Focusing on the Yayoi era to the medieval era
    • ・ YAMADA Kosei: Disasters in the modern Ryukyu and Amami region and societal reactions in the 1780s
    • ・ Plenary discussion
      January 11
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Starting work in the Categorization and Synthesis group: One future direction in integrating research results
    • ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka, KIMURA Katsuhiko: Prospects for temperature and precipitation reconstructions based on tree rings for the ancient and medieval periods in Japan
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: A data analysis manual for documentary historiography, with examples
    • ・ MATSUGI Takehiko: Prospects for overall compilation of data on societal reactions and comparison with climate variation during the prehistoric and ancient eras
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    December 20, 2015
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
    • ・ ITO Toshikazu: Transition and redevelopment of arable lands in Kami Katsura-no-sho estate in Yamashiro province
    • ・ SASOU Mamoru: Jike ruins in Ishikawa prefecture
    • ・ Status report and plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient History Group

    DATE
    November 22, 2015
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updates on recent progress in the project as a whole
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi, SANO Masaki: Newly developed methods for producing tree ring oxygen isotope data from degraded wood held at RIHN
    • ・ KIMURA Katsuhiko: Case studies of analysis of excavated wooden artifacts from eastern Japan
    • ・ OKADA Kenichi: Case study of paddy fields and forests submerged by floods at the end of the first half of the Yayoi era: Nakanishi site and Akitsu site in Nara prefecture
    • ・ MATSUGI Takehiko: On the environmental basis of warfare and state formation (core research at National Museum of Japanese History, 2015-17)
    • ・ IKUTA Atsushi: Records in Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) and climate change
    • ・ Plenary discussion: Procedures for continuing the research; suggestions for sessions in WAC-8 in Kyoto; prospects for holding sessions with the Japanese archaeological association

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    October 31 - November 1, 2015
     
      October 31
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
    • ・ WATANABE Koichi: Disaster relief in the case of flood damage by the private sector in the Edo era in 1742, 1786, and 1846
    • ・ Update on recent progress / plenary discussion
      November 1
    • ・ OGI Shinichiro: Grasshopper damage and societal response in Tosa and its connection with the subsequent production of Chinese sweet potatoes
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Climate change and the environment in villages in Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara

    SUBJECT
    Joint Meeting of the Paleoclimatology Group and the Climatology Group

    DATE
    October 10-11, 2015
     
      October 10
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress of the Climatology and Paleoclimatology groups and collaboration with other groups
    • ・ ZAIKI Masumi, HIRANO Junpei: Climate reconstruction using newly acquired historical data
    • ・ YOSHIMURA Kei: Toward the assimilation of paleoclimate data
    • ・ OKAZAKI Atsushi: What climate factors can be extracted from oxygen isotope records in tree ring cellulose?
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Collaboration with the Early Modern History group and hoped-for results
    • ・ Plenary discussion
      October 11
    • ・ KAWAHATA Hodaka: Temperature variations for Hiroshima and Osaka as reconstructed from alkenone in marine sediments
    • ・ ABE Osamu: Oceanic environmental history for Ishigaki Island reconstructed from coral rings
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    September 18, 2015
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: The relationship among data from Chronological Table of Climate Disasters in Medieval Japan by Fujiki H., climate change, and famines
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi, ITOU Keisuke: Training in statistical data analysis using Chronological Table of Climate Disasters in Medieval Japan by Fujiki H. and reconstructed paleoclimate data
    • ・ TAKAGI Tokuro: Instability in estate proprietorship from the end of 10th through 11thcenturies and climate change
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Categorization and Synthesis Group

    DATE
    September 4, 2015
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of the aims of the Categorization and Synthesis group
    • ・ SANO Masaki: Updates on recent progress in developing tree-ring records from Japan
    • ・ ZAIKI Masumi, HIRANO Junpei: Updates on recent progress in reconstructed paleoclimate data using historical documents
    • ・ TAKAHASHI Miyuki: Updates on recent progress in historical population data
    • ・ TAKATSUKI Yasuo, SHIBAMOTO Masahiko: Updates on recent progress in price data from the early modern period
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Updates on recent progress regarding menjo (village tax account) related data
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    The 115th RIHN Seminar

    DATE
    August 6, 2015
     
    第115回地球研セミナー
    • Speaker: Philip C. BROWN
    • "Institutions, ownership rights and natural resource maintenance: Resilience lessons from the Japanese Past"
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    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    June 27-28, 2015
     
      June 27
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole and of each group
    • ・ TAKEI Koichi: Climate change and communities in the modern Hokuriku Region: The present state of research and issues to be addressed
    • ・ HIRANO Tetsuya: The experience of famine and societal reactions to poor harvests in the Tenpo era in Shimotsuke province
    • ・ Updates on the recent research progress of each member
      June 28
    • ・ SATO Hiroyuki: Climate change and communities in modern southern Kyushu
    • ・ SATO Daisuke: Disaster response in Sendai-han (Sendai Domain): The relationship between feudal domains and society

    SUBJECT
    2nd Joint Seminar on the Historiography and Archaeology of the Ancient-Medieval Transition

    DATE
    June 21, 2015
     
    中世考古
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims
    • ・ INOUE Tomohiro: Geomorphological change and development of cultivation from the 10th through the 13th century
    • ・ MIYAJIMA Yoshikazu: Recovery from the severe floods of the late 9th century: In the Koshoku jori and Yashiro site groups
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    Observation of Irrigation Canal from the Medieval Era at the Right River Bank of Katsuragawa-River in Western Kyoto

    DATE
    May 31, 2015
     
    桂川巡見

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient History Group: On Dating

    DATE
    May 29, 2015
     
    先史古代史
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress in paleoclimate reconstruction and tree ring dating in prehistoric and ancient times
    • ・ SANO Masaki: Potential for precise dating of intra-annual analysis of tree ring cellulose oxygen isotopes
    • ・ MURAKAMI Yumiko: Sampling and dating of excavated wood from ruins
    • ・ FUJIO Shinichiro: The Toro site and floods
    • ・ ONBE Shin: A study centering on the Tokai region in the first half of Jomon era using radiocarbon (14C) dating
    • ・ KOBAYASHI Kenichi: Community dynamics in the Jomon era based on carbon-14 analysis
    • ・ KIMURA Katsuhiko: Recent progress in the construction of a tree ring chronology for coastal regions along the Sea of Japan
    • ・ Plenary discussion (chaired by WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko)

    SUBJECT
    Workshop for Tree Ring Analysis

    DATE
    May 8-9, 2015
     
    樹木年輪
      May 8
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
    • ・ YASUE Koh: Summer temperatures reconstructed from tree ring density data
    • ・ SANO Masaki, HAKOZAKI Masataka, KIMURA Katsuhiko: Can atmospheric circulation patterns be reconstructed by analyzing spatially distributed tree ring oxygen isotope data?
    • ・ HAKOZAKI, Masataka: The potential for tree ring 14C-based reconstruction of atmospheric circulation patterns
    • ・ KAGAWA Satoshi: Oxygen isotopes of tree rings as a tool to pinpoint the geographic origin of Japanese timber
    • ・ Plenary discussion
      May 9
    • ・ SHO Kenjiro: Application of intra-annual tree ring oxygen isotope data
    • ・ UEMURA Ryu: Climate reconstruction for Okinawa based on tree ring δ18O of Ryukyu pines
    • ・ SANO Masaki: Intra-annual variations in tree ring δ18O records obtained from several species of trees growing in the same forest
    • ・ Plenary discussion

    SUBJECT
    April Meeting of Japanese History Association (Nihonshi kenkyukai)

    DATE
    April 25, 2015 Kyoto University
     
    日本史研究会
    • ・ Opening Remarks: Explanation of the program; introduction of the speakers
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Prospects for new historical research using data from high resolution paleoclimatology
    • ・ TAMURA Noriyoshi: The study of Japanese medieval history and reconstruction using high resolution paleoclimatology
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Payment of the land tax and climate change in the early modern era
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    1st Joint seminar on the Historiography and Archaeology of the Ancient-Medieval Transition

    DATE
    April 1, 2015
     
    中世考古
    • ・ MIZUNO Shoji: Climate change and the formation of medieval society in the 12th century
    • ・ SASOU Mamoru: Topographical change of rivers and migration of villages and irrigation systems in the Kanto region: Centering on the Koitogawa river and all of its tributaries in Chiba prefecture
    • ・ INOUE Tomohiro: Geomorphological change and the development of cultivation during the 10th through 13th centuries
    • ・ Plenary discussion


    2014-2015

    SUBJECT
    Asia 2K

    DATE
    March 19-20, 2015
     
      March 19
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
    • ・ Lucien von GUNTEN: The PAGES 2k network Phase 2
    • ・ Xuemei SHAO, representing Quansheng GE: Purpose of this workshop
    • ・ OKAZAKI Atsushi: Poster section/Database of climate disasters from AD 601 to AD 1200.
    • ・ OKAZAKI Atsushi: Poster section/Quasi-twentieth century reanalysis with stable water isotopes and comparison with observations and proxies
    • Chair, Jonathan Palmer/Modelling & Statistics
      • ・ Edward COOK: The monsoon Asia drought atlas-Version 2
      • ・ Huan ZHANG: Long-term memory in tree-ring proxies and its influence on climate reconstructions
      • ・ Jianghao WANG: Asia 2k in a broader context: A comparison between regional and global surface temperature reconstructions
      • ・ Feng SHI: Tree ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium
    • Chair, NAKATSUKA Takeshi/Lake and ocean sediments
      • ・ Philipp MUNZ: Decadal-scale record of Indian Ocean winter monsoon intensity over the past two millennia
      • ・ Min-Te CHEN: A new window for probing tropical ocean climate during the LIA and MWP: Mud drift sediments in the East China Sea
      • ・ KAWAHATA Hodaka: Alkenone SST and atmospheric temperature during the last 3000 years in western Japan
    • Chair, Hemant Borgaonkar/Cave deposits
      • ・ Naveen GHANDI: Past rainfall reconstruction using speleothems from Nakarallu cave, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India
    • Document based paleoclimate reconstruction
      • ・ HIRANO Junpei: Japanese early modern document-based paleoclimate reconstruction
      • ・ YOSHIMURA Kei: Data assimilation GCM to incorporate diary weather records in Early Modern Japan
      • ・ Zhixin HAO: High-resolution temperature reconstruction from historical documents in China
      • ・ Poorna YAHAMPATH: Paleoclimate change recordings of Sri Lanka in the last two millennia with reference to key historical records
    • Chair, SANO Masaki
    • Tree ring
      • ・ Muhammad WAHAB: Hydrological signals in tree ring width chronologies of pine tree species in northern Pakistan
      • ・ Binod DAWADI: Pre-monsoon precipitation signal in tree rings of timberline Betula utilis in the Central Himalayas
      • ・ Udya Kumar THAPA: Spring temperatures in the far-western Nepal Himalayas since A.D. 1640 reconstructed from Picea smithiana tree ring widths
      • ・ Narayan Prasad GAIRE: Premonsoon climate reconstruction using ring width chronologies of conifer species from the western Nepal Himalayas
      • ・ Shreyas MANAGAVE: Oxygen isotopic composition of teak from Peninsular India
    • Glacier
      • ・ Olga SOLOMINA: Glaciers fluctuations in Asia in the last 2ka
      March 20
    • Chair, Juerg LUTERBACHER
      • New results of paleoclimate reconstruction using new data sets
      • ・ Huan ZHANG
      • ・ Jianghao WANG
    • Chair, Edward COOK
      • Discussion on needed data (type of proxies, location of data, resolution of data, etc.) for improving the reconstruction performance
    • Chair, Chenxi XU
      • Data management and data quality control
    • Chair, Xuemei SHAO
      • New goals (hydro-climate reconstruction), timeline and tasks: Final synthesis of this workshop

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    February 22, 2015
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole and plans for the next fiscal year
    • ・ ENDO Takahiro: On the Kabu-ido system
    • ・ YAMADA Kosei: Disasters and societal reactions in the Ryukyu and Amami region: Focusing on the 1780s

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    February 7, 2015
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole and prospects for the next fiscal year
    • ・ TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: Self-introduction; Present research issues relating to Noto and Iwaigawa-yosui and climate change
    • ・ TAMURA Noriyoshi: Report on climate disasters and seasonality of food transportation
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: Graphic display of the data in Chronological Table of Climate Disasters in Medieval Japan by Fujiki H. (2009)
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    December 26, 2014
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
    • ・ ENDO Takahiro: A study of the Kabu-ido system: An innovative institution for groundwater management in ring-levee areas
    • ・ KORIYAMA Shiho: The reformation of domain duties and climate change: Confirming the remaining problems and progress in addressing issues
    • ・ KIKUCHI Isao: The nago system and the kariwake kosaku system (the tenancy system and customs between landlords and tenant farmers) in Morioka and Sendai domains in times of famine and poor harvests
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    1st General Meeting

    DATE
    December 23-24, 2014
     
      December 23
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening address; report on RIHN annual research presentations
    • ・ SANO Masaki: Recent activities of the Climatology and Paleoclimatology groups
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: Recent activities of the Early Modern history group
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: Recent activities of the Medieval History group
    • ・ MURAKAMI Yumiko: Recent activities of the Prehistoric/Ancient History group
    • ・ Toward a true integration of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities (Part I): “Let me ask only this to researchers working in other disciplines!”
      December 24
    • ・ Toward a true integration of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities (Part II): “Let me ask only this to researchers working in other disciplines!”
    • ・ HIRANO Junpei: Climate change information from historical records
    • ・ TAMURA Noriyoshi: Hopes regarding paleoclimatology from the perspective of documentary historiography
    • ・ WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: Insights from dendrochronology to earthenware dating
    • ・ MASUDA Koichi: Toward an integration of descriptive and physical approaches to paleoclimate
    • ・ Discussion and notifications

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient History Group

    DATE
    October 10, 2014
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
    • ・ KANEDA Akihiro: The future of dating by archaeological methods for ancient Japan
    • ・ MURAKAMI Mayuko: The relationship between climate change and coins
    • ・ MURAKAMI Yumiko: Recent progress in Oxygen isotope analysis and research plans
    • ・ INOUE Tomohiro: Transition of land utilization at the Ikeshima-Fukumanji site
    • ・ KAWASUMI Tatsunori: Location and changes in topographical circumstances at the Ikeshima-Fukumanji site
    • ・ WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: The Ikeshima-Fukumanji site and research plans
    • ・ Discussion followed by other participant’s research plans

    SUBJECT
    Joint Meeting of the Paleoclimatology Group and the Climatology Group

    DATE
    October 6-7, 2014
     
      October 6
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Issues regarding collaboration with other groups
    • ・ YOSHIMURA Kei: Pre-research for assimilation of paleoclimatological data
    • ・ HIRANO Junpei: The effort to construct a historical climate database
    • ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka: The challenges of Yamase (cold onshore wind) reconstruction by high resolution tree ring 14C analyses in northern Japan
    • ・ SUZUKI Katsuaki, TADA Ryuji: Comparison between the flux of clastic material in surface varved sediments of Lake Suigetsu and the meteorological and disaster records
    • ・ Discussion
      October 7
    • ・ YASUE Koh: Report of the survey of Tateyama Cedar, recent progress in tree-ring analysis, and research plans
    • ・ ABE Osamu: Recent progress in coral ring analysis, and research plans
    • ・ TAGAMI Takahiro: Recent progress in paleoclimatological research using speleothems in the Taga region
    • ・ KURITA Naoyuki: Variation in tree ring oxygen isotope ratios due to change in atmospheric circulation: An analysis of the climate isotopic response process
    • ・ SHO Kenjiro: Forward modeling of Ryukyu Pine δ18O in Okinawa using precipitation δ18O and meteorological observational data
    • ・ KIMURA Katsuhiko: The present state of constructing a master chronology for tree ring oxygen isotope ratios for the period back to 2300 BC in the middle Jomon era
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    September 6-7, 2014
     
      September 6
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
    • ・ ITO Toshikazu: Presentation as a new member
    • ・ Status Report: TAMURA Noriyoshi, KAWASUMI Tatsunori, ITO Keisuke
    • ・ ITO Keisuke: Reconstruction of climate around the time of the Kanki famine: Based on the method described in the paper by Maejima and Tagami
    • ・ Discussion
      September 7
    • ・ TAKAGI Tokuro: Interim report on the investigation of historical data from Kami Kuze-no-sho estate
    • ・ NISHIYACHI Seibi: Status report on investigation of the 10th and 11th centuries
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    September 3, 2014
     
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
    • ・ MURA Kazuaki: The process of establishment of the ruling system in Kamigata, Kyoto, an economic and political center and the foothold for the Bakufu’s rule of western Japan
    • ・ TAKATSUKI Yasuo: Economic change in early modern Japan as seen from research on commodity price history
    • ・ KAMATANI Kaoru: The relation between land tax payments and climate change: The example of Omi province (present Shiga prefecture)
    • ・ Report and research plans
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Prehistory/Ancient History Group

    DATE
    July 24-25, 2014
     
      July 24
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims
    • ・ Current state of the Paleoclimatology group, the Early Modern History group, the Medieval History group, and issues to be addressed by the Prehistory/Ancient History group
    • ・ WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: What to compare with climate change?: Events relating to change in ancient villages
    • ・ AKATSUKA Jiro: Report
    • ・ YAMADA Masahisa: Report
    • ・ HIGAMI Noboru: Report from the results of studies at the Isshikiaokai site
    • ・ Discussion
      July 25
    • ・ FUJIO Shinichiro: Report
    • ・ MATSUGI Takehiko: Toward the identification of historical events in the prehistoric era
    • ・ Discussion

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Early Modern History Group

    DATE
    June 21-22, 2014
     
      June 21
    • ・ SATO Daisuke, HIRANO Junpei: Report on investigations of historical data
    • ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Features of climate change in the early modern era in Japan
    • ・ Discussion: Comparative study of disaster chronologies
      June 22
    • Presentations by new group members
    • ・ YAMADA Kosei, TAKEI Koichi, OGI Shinichiro, TAKAHASHI Miyuki, TAKATSUKI Yasuo
    • ・ Discussion: Research plans of the Early Modern History group for fiscal 2014

    SUBJECT
    Meeting of the Medieval History Group

    DATE
    May 24-25, 2014
     
      May 24
    • ・ Discussion: Collection of articles spanning different islands in the same period
      May 25
    • ・ TAMURA Noriyoshi: Reconstruction of changes in precipitation in the 14th and 15th centuries and historical data related to Kami Katsura-no-sho estate
    • ・ TAKAGI Tokuro: Collecting historical data on Kuze-no-sho estate

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