Inoue family, having lived in Abiko City, Chiba Prefectire, reclaimed Teganuma and formed Aijima Farm since the Edo era. The south side of Inoue's site looks over the whole view of Aijima Farm. There are the residence built in 1860, the No.2 earthen storehouse and the main gate built in 1851, and so on in Inoue's site. This paper will discuss the earthen storehouse as a rice chest built in 1930-1931 by Jiro Inoue(1873-1941), the owner and also superintendent.Jiro Inoue was a civil engineer and also a Bachelor of Engineering. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1895, and then had been concerned with many civil works in various Japanese towns. After he retired, he went back to his hometown, Abiko, and was active. One of the activities was organization of Teganuma-Aijima-readjustment of arable land-union. On the other hand, he constructed own earthen store house. He has tried to use the frontier technologies and materials being different from the past in this construction, however it was similar to the past to look at. For example, he used concrete for foundation work and adopted new waterproof materials for the wall. The documents of construction are preserved, and this earthen storehouse, about 80 years old, is in existence beautifully.
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