Geothermal Energy in History, the Case of Japan: Our Common Heritage
- Key words
- hot spring bathing, history, Japan
- Location
- Japan
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 2 ? History of Geothermal
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 1-sekioka2
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Abstract
From times to just before the industrial Japan, the history of geothermal energy the history of hot spring bathing. The oldest vestige Of dating from the pre-pottery period before 11,000 can be found near hotspring, Akita P ref. Archaeological myths and legends of bathing appear in several from ancient times. Of particular importance early records are the made by Emperor s to those hot spas. Some text s from the of era 794 to the late era describe both the primary characteristics of bathing hot springs includ-ing the processes of making artificial hat spring water.
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