@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00002241,
 author = {松村, 博久 and MATSUMURA, Hirohisa and 門, 久義 and KADO, Hisayoshi},
 journal = {鹿児島大学工学部研究報告, The research reports of the Faculty of Engineering, Kagoshima University},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {The utilization of water wheels in Kagoshima Prefecture began first in the seventeenth century. During that time water wheels were used for suger cane presses, driving bellows and pounding gold ore. From the feudal clan period to the Meiji, Taisyo and Syowa periods, water wheels and turbines
began to be used for many usages, e.g., rice-polishing, milling, producing bone meal, sweet potato starch, incense sticks, lumbering, driving mechanical dolls, pumping, generation of electricity, and so
on. But they were to be finally replaced by steam engines, internal combustion engines and electric motors. Such a decline in water wheels was owing to their special qualities, i.e., inability to increase their power greatly and the requirement of a nearby water supply, and moreover depending on the decrease of their users.
Under such circumstances, research on the utilization of water wheels and turbines up to the present seems to be important,
because this data is useful in the history of technology and usable for developing local energy in the future.
In this report, the utilization of water wheels and turbines up to the present in the northwestern part of Kagoshima Prefecture is studied. It is shown that there are a hundred ninety four locations where water wheels are used for pounding gold ore, a hundred and one for rice-polishing and milling, ten for spinning, twelve for producing bone meal, and so on ; the total number of these wheels and turbines is three hundred forty two.},
 pages = {21--36},
 title = {鹿児島県の水車利用に関する研究 : 第1報 北薩地域について},
 volume = {32},
 year = {1990}
}