Otagiri Dam Explained

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]

Name origin

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archived copy . 11 June 2017 . 21 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160221204943/http://www.pref.nagano.lg.jp/toshikei/kurashi/sumai/kekan/documents/seibishishin-ex.pdf . dead .
  2. Web site: 長野市公共サインガイドライン. Nagano City Official Website. 10 June 2017.
  3. Web site: Odagiri Dam [Nagano Pref.] - Dams in Japan. damnet.or.jp.
  4. [:ja:小田切]
  5. 松崎岩夫『長野県の地名 その由来』,信濃古代文化研究所,1991年
  6. 松崎岩夫『上伊那の地名 その由来』,ほおずき書籍,1999年.
  7. [:ja:太田切川 (長野県)]
  8. [:ja:中田切川]
  9. [:ja:片桐村]
  10. [:ja:片桐氏]
  11. [:ja:田切]
  12. Web site: 目黒の地名 田切(たぎり) 目黒区.