Wednesday, May 22, 2013

April 30, Tuesday, Sketching at Buko-zan Mountain

I went  to do sketching with my students.
We met at Honkawagoe station at 8:30am, took Seibu Shinjyuku line and Ikebukuro line to Yokose.
We arrived at Yokose at 10:15am, then took about 15 minutes walk up to Terasaka Tanada. 

 
The mointain's name is Buko-zan.
It is a limestone mountain, so Chichibu cement company has been mining limestone.
You can see their factory in the photo and top of mountain shape has been changed.



FYI, Tanada means terraced rice-field. The terrace rice-field is a kind of ancient way of faming rice-field in mountain area.
Those are signs of Terasaka Tanada in the Kamakura period, 1185-1333.
It is a good Eco-system. 



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