| For salt production, a great volume of fuel is required (to consecutively operate salt production during an entire year, it is necessary to consume an entire forest 75 times larger than the salt field itself as fuel), therefore, for salt manufacturers, it was a life-and-death matter to secure a Shiokiyama (塩木山). |
製塩は大量の燃料を必要とする（年間通して操業する場合、塩田の面積の75倍の広さの森林を全て燃料として1年で消費しなければならない）為、製塩業にとって塩木山の確保は死活問題であった。 |