【Buding Wood in Simoakasaka, kawagoe City】   
     April 2000  Oil Painting　　　15F 53.0×65.2cm   Lakhan
Kawagoe, used to be prosperous as a center of commodity transportation for Edo ( old name of Tokyo more than 100 years ago) where Grand General resided in Edo-age, today resumed its reputation for its preserved traditional architectual memorials so called "Kura-Zukuri" and more than millions of people visit every year to see and enjoy it. Althoug, it hasn't yet been widely known, Kawagoe, particularly the southern part of it, is rich in green fields of deciduous oak wood, the leaves of which provide high quality organic manure for field agricultures. The wood of this picture is located in Simoakasaka, provablly most thouthern area of the city, which I visited Feb 26, 2000 to look for sketching site and started it on April 16 to complete it on April 22. Like this picture, in Musashino, woods are located in agrecultural fields shaping mosaic structure because such woods is silviculturally grown and maintained by farmers in order to obain fermented organic manure for traditional sustainable agriculture which has been lasting since more than 400 years ago. 

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