Menkind domesticated horses in Central Asia around 3500 BC. By the way, domestication of dogs is older and seems to date back to 11,000 years before the end of the ice age.
Horses were used not only for towing, but also for meat for stags and for dairy for mares. After that, when harnesses and wheels were developed, and it came to be used as the main force for military use.
In Japan, horses came from the Continent along with horseback riding and breeding techniques in the early 4th and 5th centuries (Kofun period), Horses existed in prehistoric times, but the temperature rose with the end of the glacial period about 10,000 years ago. The forests have replaced grasslands and are no longer an environment that allows horses to live. For this reason, horses seem to have become extinct in the Japanese archipelago at the end of the ice age.
Agricultural tractors in Japan began to spread from tractors such as the Komatsu WD50 type in 1958 (Showa 33), the Shibaura S17 type in 1959 (Showa 34), and the Kubota T-15 type. The total number of passenger-type tractors is about 7,000 in 1961 (Showa 36). In other words, the bearer of farming was a horse. At that time, the farmhouse had one or two horses in each farmer. There were 700,000 horses nationwide. Like dogs, horses were also children's playmates.
Building a relationship of trust with the horse, we should be more free in the grasslands. In order to do that, I have to go through the noisy oba-chans . It takes a great deal of preparedness to win freedom.
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