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▲The narow way in the terraced fields
In this turn I would visit a tiny village above the inns mentioned the previous page.
In the village the oldest private house in Nagano Pref. has been kept. That is one -storeied house and has the roof covered with barks. Its architecural style is of Oomune-zukuri category but primitive one in the transitional period.
▲A cute cat of the Fujiwaras
It is disignated as the prefectural treasure and to be carefully conserved. Then the Fujiwaras lives in the next house, which has brown roof.
When taking pictures of the houses, s tortoiseshell cat got out and greeted me. Another one was walking on a veranda.
▲Long fields with narwow width along the altitude-lines
The village is on the hill-back of the mountain-foot. Then the path to it is very steep. But in the area near around the houses and the fields the slope is so gentle, I think it was not so difficult to cultivate teraced fields. They has easily got irrigation water from springs on mountain-foot, as prespitation is rather rich here.
The pioneer farmers came here from Tsumago or Magome village to develp farmlands and built up a village in the early stage of Edo period.
The terraced paddy fields shape long and narrow along the altitude-lines, thus by enlarging the fields, they have made farming more effective. If you want to see the form of them, please click on the Google Map cited above to open it and change it into the air photograph.
But now more fields are getting out of farming because of aging and depopulation.
Owing to a women I met and interviewed, threa were many people running gesthouse business over twelve years ago but have already close it because of aging. The time to study some measures to maintain the village and the traditional houses has come.
▲A huge cherry tree of Yatsurugi-Jinja
▲From the shirine-house
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