Thursday 19 April 2012

Out and about in Ashikaga.

More pictures than words today.  Last Thursday afternoon we walked around Ashikaga Gakko (the School) which is Japan's oldest university.   Lots of areas to see:  a shrine, the study, the hojo (classroom)  are just a few parts of it.

The Confucian shrine.

Cherry blossom everywhere














Seen on an old building - concrete shutters.















The vegetable gardens are protected from the wild boars with steel mesh (called malla here.)
The mesh is supported by bamboo from the forest.

And here it is - the  bamboo forest.

Hungry?  Pick your own shitake mushrooms. We saw more than one house with stacks of cut chestnut logs with mushrooms growing on them.

Looking across the fields to the mountains in the distance.

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