English problem
We have studied English for a long time.even though we don't speak English very well.
We bought chairs from a couple from abroad.
I said them ,These chairs will be used for shop.
Please come to my place. Please visit our website.
So l write in English for the first time in 20 years.
I write English without fear.
We are Tanehachi farm.We are growing vegetables, trees, chickens, and more.
We are living with bees,seeds, trees, mushrooms, microbes,and more.
We are making delicious food,and more.
The name of this place is OOISHITAIRA, origin of the place name from Ainu people. Ainu are indigenous of Japan.
And OOISHITAIRA means the “woods living mountain gods”. The murmuring of stream, birds songs, sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.
Here's Paradise, but there are snakes in front of the entrance, there are stink bugs all over the house.
Please come to my place.
Dreams and snow
My dreams came true already.
I wanted to be a farmer.
I wanted to live nearby nature.
I wanted to marry beautiful woman.
All wishes came true.
So after, just stay healthy and live longer.
But we need money a little bit.
I have to make money a little bit.
If it is possible,l use this location to make money.
So we started restaurant and guest house.
We close during winter.Because our house will be covered with deep snow.
I work to remove snow at a station as part time worker.
My wife write stories at house in deep snow.she like writing stories for children.
Jomon
Jomon is ancient culture of Japan.
It existed 10000years ago.
I picked up two pieces of pottery left by Jomon people in my field. This means I live this place where Jomon people lived.
We see the same mountain.
We drink water that comes from the same mountain.
Jomon people were gatherers.
They collected edible plants,nuts and
mushrooms.
And I also love to get food from nature.
There are big chestnut trees in front of my house.
I feel that they and I both eat same chestnuts🌰.
I feel connection between Jomon people and I beyond 10000years.
Mushrooms
I love mushrooms.
I love their unique shapes,colors,and tastes.
there are deadly poisonous mushrooms,and even some mushrooms glow in the dark.
I can get very rare mushrooms that are known to be very expensive. And these mushrooms appear the same place at the same season.l can meet them every year.
This means we live together on the same mountain,like family.
And the shapes we can see are not their essential condition because mushrooms live in the soil for most of the year.
The shapes we see are just like flowers to next generation.
So their networks underground are invisible.
But their networks are huge.
The biggest organism is not whales or trees. It's mushrooms.
And mushrooms connect with other trees and plants.they help each other,they exchange nutrients.
Perhaps I am also connected to mushrooms.
And mushrooms are also connecting between life and death. Fungi turn death into life.
In one world,doctor is saying, he died.
His family cries.
In another world,doctor is saying that baby has been born!A beautiful boy!
His family cries.
The doctor might be mushrooms.
That mountain
That mountain has no name.nobody knows.
I live on foot of that mountain.
I see the mountain every day.
It's only me who see that mountain every day.
Therefore I have a right to name that mountain.
I named that mountain as Oyama.
In Japanese yama means mountain,and Japanese people add O in front of a word to show respect.
So Oyama is generally way to call mountain.
But there are some hidden meanings.
Jack kerouac's"On the Road " (1957)
documented Beat movement, expressed young, high beated, contemporary life.they didn't want settlement. They were always moving and living on the road.
I live here until I die.
I live on this Oyama. (yama means mountain), like "On the mountain,"
And O looks like circle.
Zen Buddhism often express their epiphany as a circle.
There is no beginning and ending.
It's empty therefore infinity.
