"Soil" Japanese calligraphy

"土" (do, or tsuchi). It is translated as soil, earth, the ground.
This character is written by Kanzi, Regular script.

Etymology :　Pictogram a lump of clay on a potter's wheel.
Ancient people are full of imagination.

Vegetables hill farm

The man is born..., put on years..

He gets something, learns something.

He loses something, forgets something.

Scent..., Flexibility.., Touch of the soil.

Colors of the sky..., vegetables..

And what is else?..., Smile.., and..

"Winter" Japanese calligraphy

　　　"冬" (tō, or fuyu). It is translated as winter.
　　　This character is written by Kanzi, Regular script.

　　　Etymology :　夂 (go)　+　冫 (ice)

　　In the present natural world, ice moves before.
　　It is the same as the etymology of this kanji.

Four seasons Panorama of Shirakawa- Old - District

　　　I quoted these photographs from the next site.

　　　You can watch the four seasons of this village.
　　　The perspective of it, first one and second.

　　　Please look at them, and enjoy the beauty...

The legendary Old-District

These houses say a gasshō-zukuri (joining hands structure).
It resembles manual form when a man joined his hands.
The structure is this local characteristic, and the roof where snow is easy to fall.
Of course people still live in there.

Nobles and concerned people made this village about 800 years ago. It is the legend that they lose to fight (1180–1185), and sheltered here.

Here is registered with the world heritage.

When this area was made first, a certain times began.
You know it well, too.




It takes several hours from the town nearby to here, and surrounded the circumference in the high mountains.
Snow shut in people in old days.

You can watch the four seasons of this village. It may surprise you a little.
The perspective of it, first one and second. Please look at them.

It will be the one of the places that are the most inconvenient in this small country.
And it may be a good place of the scenery most.




The ancestral one of them is called "Heike".
They were defeated by Yoritomo Minamoto of "Genji".
The Heian period was over at the time, and the Kamakura period began.

Yoritomo Minamoto is the first Shōgun. It is the leader of the samurai.
Yes. When this village was born, the Samurai's area whom you knew was born, too.

Here is Shirakawa-gō ("White River Old-District"), Gifu Prefecture.