Irori life 2010

[kgd]

Very nice and wonderful looking food!

 

[Marcelo Cantu]

Very inetersting post and pictures fujita yuji. One question; How is the heat kept from affecting (drying out or even igniting) the wood?

 

[fujita yuji]

Thank you guys for your favourable comments and questions.
Now I'm woke up again and try to answer your questions.

What's the name of that village? I might have to try and drive down and visit it this spring or summer.

It's Oodaira-juku 大平宿
Once the village was a major stopping and resting place along the street connected Iida and Kiso.
http://maps.google.co.jp/?ie=UTF8&h...ent=3,0x601cbe05b56532c3:0x3772129f78b792cf,1
The houses are managed by former resident volunteers.
To stay in, you make request and pay some fee to the office of the volunteers, which is located in Ars sport (アルススポー&#12484 mountaineering/climbing shop of Iida city.
It's thirty minutes by car or an hour of ride by bike from Iida city.

I always look forward to your wilderness pictures! The woods are so beautiful there! Ever stumble across tanuki? I hear they're growing more scarce these days.

Thanks, FortyTwoBlades. Not sure about tanukis but quite sure there we have some fox and rabbits.
I've even seen a golden eagle circling above two years ago.

Very inetersting post and pictures fujita yuji. One question; How is the heat kept from affecting (drying out or even igniting) the wood?

Not much trick there. The Irori base is formed with heat-resistant soil and digged about 0.5 feet
to prevent direct heat from the charcoal damages the Irori frame or the floor itself.
We put some additional fuel wood around the fire both for convenience and to protect the house from heat and fire.
But the most important thing is to control the fire and keep its power or size moderate.

 

[Shotgun]

Good morning Fujita-san. Did you really do a full shave with that knife? Do you think it could tackle my beard?

Great pics. Looks like a good time.

 

[fujita yuji]

As my blade is best HTed M2 HSS, it surely can handle yours too, provided that your beard
is not hardened steel wire

 

[Mistwalker]

Beautiful photos! I love that Irori village you go to Fujita, beautiful even in the spring. That Dinner is making me hungry!

 

[fujita yuji]

Thanks, mistwalker.
I'm happy you love Irori and the village.
And glad you noticed your hunger

 

[Ultraman]

Thank you for sharing - it looked like a fun trip!
Is that abalone and snail being roasted? Looks good!

 

[fujita yuji]

Thanks Ultraman for your 666th post!
Yes, you're right.
As you see Irori is nothing more than a simple open fire, we can cook
several things simultaneously.
Abalone, snail, and some meat were roasted as the stew being cooked.

 

[Ultraman]

Holy cow, it WAS my 666th post! Sometimes this is perceived to have a bad connotation, but I won't worry about it Thanks again for the neat post!

 

[A.L.]

Thanks for sharing the pics! Recently saw a series of programs about Japanese nature. Amazingly diverse and what impressed me was the purity everywhere (like chrystal clear water). It's amazing that you have gigantic cities but in other hand have such untouched countryside.

 

[fujita yuji]

Thanks A.L.
You're right about the field of Japan.
Sadly, not many people here recognize it.
I'm happy you like.
I just want to share these things with you because here in this WSS forum
lots of beautiful field and great outing stories are kept on posted and they are
really amazing!

If you like here's a older thread I posted in December 2008.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602747

 

[demoteamone]

素晴らしい:thumbup:フジタさん:thumbup:

 

[wackafew]

Looks like a great time. Very nice pictures.

 

[Kismet]

Thank you for taking me on your trip.

I very much enjoyed being there.

Be safe.

 

[fujita yuji]

素晴らしい:thumbup:フジタさん:thumbup:

どうもありがとうございます
楽しんでいただけたようで　なによりです
Thanks demoteamone. Glad you like this place.

Looks like a great time. Very nice pictures.

Thanks. Happy to see you enjoyed them.

Thank you for taking me on your trip.

I very much enjoyed being there.

Be safe.

Thanks, Kismet.
Nice to hear you like them.

Thank you guys for all your favourable comments and responses.

 

[scotchleaf]

Thats a wonderful thing about this forum: getting info from people all over the world with similar interests - thanks Fujita

- charles

 

[Erlkonig]

I saw a TV show about a potter named Kikuchi who living off gird in Yakushima use irori to cook food and making salt form sea water - what a wonderful scene!

 

[fujita yuji]

Thats a wonderful thing about this forum: getting info from people all over the world with similar interests - thanks Fujita

- charles

Thanks, scotchleaf.
This is really a great place as you said :thumbup:

I saw a TV show about a potter named Kikuchi who living off gird in Yakushima use irori to cook food and making salt form sea water - what a wonderful scene!

That's great you heard about Yakushima, Erkonig.
Yakushima has really great dense forest, beautiful streams, and nice mountains
within a small island of only twenty miles of diameter.
I highly recommend this island. Really worth to visit.

 

[TWBryan]

What a wonderful place to go camping. Japan is one of the few places I would like to visit.Thanks for sharing and please post more pics when you have them.