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Kazusa Bori - Travel Japan - Japanese Culture Kazusa Bori (上総掘り) is well digging method by human power with utilizing tools' weight, which was researched and developed in west of Kazusa , the old province, middle area of current Chiba-ken in Japan. The Kazusa Bori method can dig deeper, maximum depth of down to around 540m. It was designated as an important intangible folk-cultural property of Japan In Japan, various kinds of wells have been made since ancient period of times in order to secure water for people to live. The Tsuki Bori, thrust digging, method was created from a digging wells which you just dig a hole, and in the Edo period (1850s), the Tsuki Bori with iron bars became the leading method. In the early Meiji period, the Kazusa Bori method for digging wells was invented, with using iron pipes and TAKEHIGO (竹ひご), thin strips of bamboo, hanging them in holes in the ground, as basic tools. Dig undergrou...

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