Table 1 Demarcation plants or trees noted in reprints of documents of different types of disputed land boundaries between 1648 and 1867 in Hitachi Province and a part of Shimousa Province (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture)
Demarcation tree species or methods | Upland fields | Divided forest | Paddy fields | Buddhist invocation hall | Rental land (unknown land use) | Residence | Shrine | Border between upland fields and communal land | Border between upland fields and goshuinchi (temple-held grasslands) | Communal land | Village border | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pinus | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 14 | |||||||
Dwarf bamboo | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||
Gleditsia japonica Miq | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||
Celtis sinensis Pers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
Demarcation trees (unknown species) | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Salix | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
Castanea crenata (L.f.) D.Don | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Pourthiaea villosa (Thunb.) DC | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Clerodendrum trichotomum Thunb. var. trichotomum | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Cryptomeria japonica (L.f.) D.Don | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Sambucus racemosa L. subsp. Sieboldiana (Miq.) H.Hara | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Small tree planting (unknown species) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Symplocos sawafutagi Nagam | 1 | 1 |