Warm sun of a farmyard a huge old chestnut tree just yesterday
the woman said been raided by wild rhesus monkeys
we had boar meat, inoshishi, stewed with chestnuts for lunch.
Deer, boar, monkeys, foxes in these mountains
and lots of dams little trucks on narrow winding roads
Four hours from Tokyo
brightly colored work clothes
living on abandoned farms
fighting concrete dams
“I am hippy” says this woman
baking bread
(early October 2000 in the headwaters of the Mibu River, Southern Japan Alps)