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Science - Agriculture | | Japanese term or phrase: 谷津田 | | type of valley rice field, different from 谷戸田 |
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20 mins confidence: | paddy fields surrounded by low elevation hills and forest
Explanation:
Geographically the hill-bottom valley was classified into two zones, gomen that is relatively flat along the main river, and yatsu that is paddy fields surrounded by low elevation hill, and forest...
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200608/000020060806A01...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V...
This study focuses on the ‘yatsu’ landscape of the southern Kanto Region, in central Japan. This agricultural landscape consists of narrow, branching valleys where rice is cultivated in irrigated paddies, and surrounding slopes and uplands devoted to a variety of landscape types, such as dry vegetable field, orchard, bamboo grove and coppice woodland.
Good pic of a Yatsuda at http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファイル:Yatsuda,katori-city,japan....
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Note added at 26 mins (2009-07-08 10:09:46 GMT)
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According to this guy's research blog (http://littlehouseinthepaddy.blogspot.com/2005/07/in-defence... 'yatsu' are referred to as 'yato' in Tokyo-to and Kanagawa-ken.
Reference: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%B7%E6%B4%A5
|  KathyT
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4 hrs confidence: | paddy field at valley bottom
Explanation:
“谷津田（やつだ）” stands for a wet paddy field located in a marshy [damp] land at valley bottom, which is also known as ”谷地田（やちだ）”.
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22 hrs confidence: | rice paddy in a valley wetlands / rice paddy in a marshy valley
Explanation:
I think you need to include something to indicate the land is marsh/bogland, as 谷津 means marshy land/bog/swamp.
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| KNielsen
Japan
Local time: 15:14
Native speaker of: English
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