Log Cabin

To the memory of my late brother.

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Extended - 1997

Late autumm - 1997

Just before the work

Extended work

Extended work : the first of December

roofed

roofed : I had my cabin　roofed with wooden boards

Extended part2 - 1999

Extended work

Extended work

Extended work

finish

roofed with clear boards

Lake Shirakaba in fall season

Lake Shirakaba in fall season

Lake view in fall season from new verqanda - Oct.2002
Lake Shirakaba under your eyes, Utukushigahara in front and Mt. Kuruma on the left

Winter time

Winter time

It always begins to snow at this time of the year.
The cabin is cut off by snow throughout the winter. (from December till April)

Spring has come

Snow in April

Snow in April

The snow thaws at the end of March here.
But We have had a lot of snow this year (2000).

Stone wall - 2000

Snow takes soils away little by littele ,
and the embankment behind cabin begins to break.

Stone wall

Stone wall

I had a landscape gardener to repair it with stones

Nap

"Ah!" , long snake naped on the stone steps

Onbashira Festival

"Onbashira Maturi" (Maturi means Fesstival in Japanese) hold every 6 years in Nagano Prefecture.People rebuild Suwa Grand Shrine with sacred pillars named "Onbashira". They drag down "Onbashira" from the forests to the Shrines.

Onbashira

Suwa Grand Shrine and "Onbashira"

Onbashira

Torii

"Onbashira" pass a Torii (sacred arch)

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