【Summer Wood in Tonoyama, Okegawa City】  
           July 2000     Oil Painting　15F　53.0×65.2cm    Lakhan 

This wood is located in Kamihideya, Okegawa City, along the boundary between the a housing complex and field where habitants cultivate for their family. On 9, 13, 16 in July, 2000, I visited this wood early in the morning before taking breakfast to draw its landscape in this picture. The trees in this picture are those of deciduous oaks like Quercus serrata, Quercus acutissima which shed their leaves late in autumn and are typical of the wood vegitations of Musashino. These wood vegitations are easy to transit once people give up silvicultural maintenance activities like as thinning or removal of invading evergreen small trees which grow up to take over the wood vegitations soon.

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