A Walk Around Kyushu
Day 45, Yatsushiro to Matsubase Fri Nov 29th, 2013
It's breezy with a partly cloudy heaven every bit I develop off as well as it promises to live on a dry out day. My showtime halt is the shinkansen station of Shin-Yatsushiro that is domicile to yet some other of the Kumamoto Artpolis projects. Called the Kilali Monument, it is non truly a edifice at all. Its is shaped similar a pocket-sized identify with a pitched roof, merely the roof as well as the walls conduct maintain many rectangular holes cutting out of them as well as thence it cannot purpose every bit a shelter.
I approximate it is sculpture. Interesting enough. I start to caput northward amongst the runway work that is instantly for several kilometers. The nation is apartment as well as covered with paddies that stitch to the hills to the east. I reckon something real strange.
It looks every bit if rice is existence planted inward the paddies. Some paddies conduct maintain plants nearly a human foot high as well as inward others tractors are planting, merely this makes no feel at the terminate of November!!! Rice is a hot weather condition crop.
I conduct maintain several detours of the route to halt inward at shrines, searching for interesting as well as unusual stories or art, as well as am rewarded at several shrines with quite unusual komainu, the Lion-dog guardian statues. Newer komainu are assist to live on a standardized "national" design, merely traditionally dissimilar areas as well as regions conduct maintain had quite distinctive designs, as well as smaller shrines oftentimes conduct maintain quite funky "folk" designs.
As I overstep through pocket-sized settlements I listen the chakka-chakka-chakka-chakka of mechanism inward functioning as well as passing yesteryear 1 edifice the doors are opened upwards as well as I tin peer inward as well as reckon what's going on as well as of a abrupt it becomes clear why I idea I was seeing rice existence planted earlier.
The mechanism operating inward these picayune workshops I conduct maintain been passing are weaving tatami, the rush flooring flora inward traditional Japanese rooms. The plants existence transplanted into the paddies are “igusa”, the rush that tatami is made from. Apparently the Yatsushiro expanse is the principal producer of tatami inward Japan.
Feeling pleased that a mystery has been solved I bear on. There are a lot of small, local shrines. In some areas of Nippon they are few as well as far between, merely some areas seem to conduct maintain a profusion. H5N1 legacy I intend of early on inward the twentieth century when the authorities tried to closed downward local shrines as well as conduct maintain the population worship at "national" shrines
Some areas, as well as I'm guessing this is 1 of them, resisted the policy. In this apartment landscape as well as at this fourth dimension of the twelvemonth the shrines are besides slow to location from a distance. Most of them conduct maintain a tall ginkgo tree, bright yellowish correct now, as well as thence an obvious landmark.
It turns out to live on a real pleasant day. The walking is flat, the weather condition is good, in that location are lots of interesting shrines, as well as the people I meet, oftentimes inward the shrines, conduct maintain been friendly. By lunchtime I attain the rather to a greater extent than urban outskirts of Uki city. Not truly a city, merely a collection of pocket-sized towns collectively renamed a city. In the town optic is a larger, grander shrine, as well as it is resplendent inward crimson as well as golden foliage. H5N1 few kilometers westward I come upwards to the Shiranui Culture Plaza, some other of the Artpolis projects
It's truly quite interesting. Basically a long rectangular box with a higher key department it is quite a classical form, both Japanese as well as western, merely the facades are covered inward white, horizontal slats which go far appear quite dynamic as well as vibrant. There are yet a few hours of daylight left, merely every bit I am to a greater extent than than halfway to Kumamoto where I volition terminate this leg of my walk to a greater extent than or less Kyushu I create upwards one's heed to brand today as well as tomorrow slow days as well as and thence halt for the night.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 44
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Day 45, Yatsushiro to Matsubase Fri Nov 29th, 2013
It's breezy with a partly cloudy heaven every bit I develop off as well as it promises to live on a dry out day. My showtime halt is the shinkansen station of Shin-Yatsushiro that is domicile to yet some other of the Kumamoto Artpolis projects. Called the Kilali Monument, it is non truly a edifice at all. Its is shaped similar a pocket-sized identify with a pitched roof, merely the roof as well as the walls conduct maintain many rectangular holes cutting out of them as well as thence it cannot purpose every bit a shelter.
I approximate it is sculpture. Interesting enough. I start to caput northward amongst the runway work that is instantly for several kilometers. The nation is apartment as well as covered with paddies that stitch to the hills to the east. I reckon something real strange.
It looks every bit if rice is existence planted inward the paddies. Some paddies conduct maintain plants nearly a human foot high as well as inward others tractors are planting, merely this makes no feel at the terminate of November!!! Rice is a hot weather condition crop.
I conduct maintain several detours of the route to halt inward at shrines, searching for interesting as well as unusual stories or art, as well as am rewarded at several shrines with quite unusual komainu, the Lion-dog guardian statues. Newer komainu are assist to live on a standardized "national" design, merely traditionally dissimilar areas as well as regions conduct maintain had quite distinctive designs, as well as smaller shrines oftentimes conduct maintain quite funky "folk" designs.
As I overstep through pocket-sized settlements I listen the chakka-chakka-chakka-chakka of mechanism inward functioning as well as passing yesteryear 1 edifice the doors are opened upwards as well as I tin peer inward as well as reckon what's going on as well as of a abrupt it becomes clear why I idea I was seeing rice existence planted earlier.
The mechanism operating inward these picayune workshops I conduct maintain been passing are weaving tatami, the rush flooring flora inward traditional Japanese rooms. The plants existence transplanted into the paddies are “igusa”, the rush that tatami is made from. Apparently the Yatsushiro expanse is the principal producer of tatami inward Japan.
Feeling pleased that a mystery has been solved I bear on. There are a lot of small, local shrines. In some areas of Nippon they are few as well as far between, merely some areas seem to conduct maintain a profusion. H5N1 legacy I intend of early on inward the twentieth century when the authorities tried to closed downward local shrines as well as conduct maintain the population worship at "national" shrines
Some areas, as well as I'm guessing this is 1 of them, resisted the policy. In this apartment landscape as well as at this fourth dimension of the twelvemonth the shrines are besides slow to location from a distance. Most of them conduct maintain a tall ginkgo tree, bright yellowish correct now, as well as thence an obvious landmark.
It turns out to live on a real pleasant day. The walking is flat, the weather condition is good, in that location are lots of interesting shrines, as well as the people I meet, oftentimes inward the shrines, conduct maintain been friendly. By lunchtime I attain the rather to a greater extent than urban outskirts of Uki city. Not truly a city, merely a collection of pocket-sized towns collectively renamed a city. In the town optic is a larger, grander shrine, as well as it is resplendent inward crimson as well as golden foliage. H5N1 few kilometers westward I come upwards to the Shiranui Culture Plaza, some other of the Artpolis projects
It's truly quite interesting. Basically a long rectangular box with a higher key department it is quite a classical form, both Japanese as well as western, merely the facades are covered inward white, horizontal slats which go far appear quite dynamic as well as vibrant. There are yet a few hours of daylight left, merely every bit I am to a greater extent than than halfway to Kumamoto where I volition terminate this leg of my walk to a greater extent than or less Kyushu I create upwards one's heed to brand today as well as tomorrow slow days as well as and thence halt for the night.
Jake Davies
A Walk Around Kyushu Day 44
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