Bamboo circulation in Satoyama and Satoumi: Japan's hilly and coastal areas

Bamboo circulation in Satoyama and Satoumi: Japan's hilly and coastal areas Professor Saijo Kiyoshi at the Miyagi University of Education explains the work behind the bamboo circulation project of 2020, focusing on bamboo growth and utilization in Satoyama and Satoumi. Bamboo has been traditionally utilized for rural life in Satoyamna (hilly area) as materials, food ingredients, religious tools, festivals, toys etc., and bamboo forests has been an important component of Satoyama landscape. Places of bamboo utilization, however, are not only limited in Satoyama but also in Satoumi (coastal fishing villages) in Japan surrounded by the sea on all sides. This article introduces bamboo utilization in oyster farming, relevant problems, and just started the project for bamboo circulation in Matsushima Bay of northeast Japan (Fig. 1) which has heavily damaged by the tsunami disaster in the 2011 East Japan Earthquake.