Kinasa
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| Kinasa | |
|---|---|
| No longer grownSources say growing here has ended | |
| Geography | |
| Country | Japan |
| Province/State | Nagano Prefecture |
| Coordinates | 36.73, 137.99 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 130 km² |
| Terrain | Mountain country enclosed by hills on every side, west of the city of Nagano; approximately the former village of Kinasa |
| Growing history | |
| Why it stopped | Banned |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Kinasa is a former cannabis growing area in the former village of Kinasa, now part of the city of Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Hemp was grown there from the late 16th century and made into clothing and into thread for tatami mats, and it was the village's main industry. Demand fell in the mid-20th century, and the city's museum in Kinasa calls hemp an industry that vanished from the village after the post-war ban.[1]
Hemp in Kinasa
Kinasa is closed in by mountains on every side. Hemp was grown there from the end of the 16th century. The village sold it made up into clothing and into tatami thread, and the crop carried the local economy. From the late 19th to the early 20th century Kinasa was a centre of hemp growing and of the hemp trade, and in those years its people had the woodcarver Kitamura Kiyomatsu make the great festival floats that the village's Furusato Museum now exhibits beside its displays on hemp-making. Demand for hemp fell in the mid-20th century and production with it. The museum attributes the end of growing to the ban on cannabis cultivation in Japan after the Second World War, and calls hemp a vanished industry of the village.[1]
Shinano hemp
Kinasa lay in the old province of Shinano, now Nagano Prefecture. In the Edo period Shinano, with Bingo, was a main source of the hemp used for the warp thread of tatami mats, and it was one of the provinces whose hemp went into cloth and mosquito nets.[2] To the south, the upland villages of Miasa and Yasaka, known together as Sanchū, had little paddy land and grew hemp (asa) as their field crop. An order of 1609 forbade hemp merchants from other provinces to enter Sanchū and buy hemp at will.[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nagano City. 鬼無里ふるさと資料館 [Kinasa Furusato Museum]. Nagano City Museum (in 日本語). Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ 平野綏. アサ (麻) [Hemp]. Kaitei shinban Sekai daihyakka jiten (in 日本語). Heibonsha. Retrieved 29 October 2026 – via Kotobank.
- ↑ 美麻村 [Miasa village]. Nihon rekishi chimei taikei (in 日本語). Heibonsha. Retrieved 29 October 2026 – via Kotobank.