Otagiri Dam | |
Name Official: | 小田切ダム(Otagiri Dam) |
Location: | Nagano Prefecture, Japan |
Dam Type: | Gravity dam |
Dam Height: | 21.3 m |
Dam Volume: | 17,000 m3 |
Purpose: | P |
Construction Began: | 1953 |
Opening: | 1954 |
Plant Operator: | Tokyo Electric Power Company |
Plant Capacity: | 16,900 KW |
Location Map: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 36.62°N 138.1233°W |
Otagiri Dam[1] (Japanese: 小田切ダム) (also sometimes read as Odagiri Dam[2]) is a dam in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1954.[3]
The name of the dam originates from the old village “Otagiri” (小田切)[4] (not "Odagiri"). Etymologically “Otagiri” consists of “O” and “tagiri”. “O” is a prefix of Japanese. “Tagiri” is the gerund of the verb “tagiru” (it means the motion of water like “boil”).[5] [6] In Nagano Prefecture there are many such place names like "Tagiri", “Ô-tagiri”,[7] "Naka-tagiri",[8] “Inu-tagiri”, “Fut-tagiri”, and “Ka-tagiri”.[9] [10] [11] [12]