【Tafuku Temple "Budding Oaks of Santome-Yama", Miyoshi Town】
    April 2002,  Oil Painting　 １５F　53.0×65.2cm    Lakhan
Santome New Field was developed a little earlier than 300 years ago by the ruler
of Kawagoe local government, "Yanagisawa Yoshiatu,Mr." who was the Secretary General
for the 5th-Shogun Yoshimune of Edo-Government.
In this filed the land was devided into long rectangular units to be alloted to the
farmers consisting of "hausing site","farms" and "oaks wood". Those land structure
still remains even today and we can see it in this field.
Yanagisawa founded and located a temple of "Tafuku-ji" in the center of
the filed for the sake of farmers memorial place where large wood area
of deciduous oaks well remains today which is probably one of the largest
canopies of deciduous oaks among those of musashino.

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