昔、この地方では畲によって畑を作った。
In the past, people in this region made fields by slash-and-burn cultivation.
畲
Meaning
Kanji 畲
to cultivate land by first setting fire to it
to cultivate land by first setting fire to it
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Example sentences
5 reference sentences
父は山の斜面を畲して粟を植えた。
My father burned a mountain slope to make a field and planted millet.
畲の跡には黒い灰が厚く残っていた。
After the field burning, thick black ash remained.
村では今も小規模な畲が行われている。
Small-scale slash-and-burn farming is still practiced in that village.
畲は土地を開く古い方法の一つだった。
It was one of the old methods used to open up land.