輪わ中じゅう

noun

ring-shaped community surrounded by flood-control embankments

Refers to a settlement enclosed by a circular levee system, historically common in low-lying areas of Japan such as the Kiso River basin.

• 輪わ中じゅうは、濃のう尾び平へい野やの低てい湿しっ地ちに多おおく見みられる集しゅう落らく形けい態たいです。

  Wajū are a settlement pattern often seen in the low-lying wetlands of the Nōbi Plain.

• この地ち域いきの輪わ中じゅうでは、昔むかしから水すい害がいに備そなえて高たかてい堤防ぼうを築きずいてきた。

  In the wajū of this region, high embankments have long been built to prepare for floods.