Watercolour and crayon
Our day trip to
Shirakawa took us through a series of viaducts and tunnels, one 11 km long!
Before the tunnels were built, the area was so isolated and snow-bound, it was
sometimes called the Tibet of Japan, and a unique thatched architecture
evolved. I thought the temple pictured
on the left was an especially appealing example of this, and made a point of putting
it in the second painting, in which I’ve tried to include the whole village,
along with the three to five-story A-frame houses, the suspension bridge, the
vegetable gardens and paddies on the valley floor, and even the terraced crops
on the mountain slope in the background. The temple, should you be looking for
it, is surrounded by purple trees, just to the left of the centre of the panorama
view.
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Shirakawa Village
Watercolour, crayon and marker
©2015 Charlene Brown
