Echizen Washi

I love this scenery.

One of my Japanese famous writers called Shiba Ryotaro ( 1923-1996 ) once described here in a book. He was really special to me when I was in China and discussed with my Chinese friends about wars between our two countries. I read his book a lot and wanted to know how I should accept this historial background as a Japanese.  He died right before I went to China. I remember this because he graduated the same university with mine. His major was Mongorian.

Anyways, I don't really feel content to this photo to tell you how beautiful here is, but every time I pass here after tunnel from Fukui city, I always remember the sentence he wrote... and also check to be sure there are people to keep the houses....