On the day of September in the year 1976, my friend come to say "Will you go to hotsprings in mountainly district of north with me? I heared , an old hotel of a hotspring is hothouse to human bodies by using the heat flow of the ground, you have known? It's so fun! you will have good sleeping and many many books you can read in the hotspring,maybe. Shall we go! " He liked himself to lie down,and was good sleeper, (he is a good guy never idle, a japanesse old proverb to children "good sleeper well growing", and so he's grown up like the proverb. So I thought that not so bad, perhaps I complately read up many half-readed books because I was insomniac but in the mountains, the heat of the ground brings to me very worm, and good metabolic rate during the days.So, I have been to where my friend said to me.

After siting the hard narrow seat of night-train during the start station to the last, we take on the bus a few accessions and take off the bus on the last stop, next we started to walk on the load in the beechtree forest about 20minutes. Offensive to the sulfur, soon the valley was opened under my feet,I was realy surprised. On the storny which mostly sulfides river beach,I found the big cottages all wood made traditional style held yet. One of cottages wallless was flooded of water, oh! not so, it's hotspringwater! Observed prudently,the hotspringwater was droped out from oneside of the cottage. Little hotsipringfall were made 3lines, in a short time two naked ladeis came in and lied at the fall, soon a oldman came too. I found this was not sightseeingsite but not hospital and the like. I felt there is a wonder ,mysterious, traditional and far away of the citylife world, and I had never concieved.

We desided to stay here several days, however,there was not the hothouse such as my friend explained to me. The hotsprings with hothouses were more distance for mountains from here which I heard by ladies and men in the open bath.Almost of they were farmer, one groupe constituted of grandma,grandpa, an heir's wife and grandchildren were majore, several neighborfamilies ware there too. They were not the sick seriously but not only for their pleasure too. Because they came to this hotospring with extraordinary large their daily-use goods, factors for eat,rice, bean-paste(miso), eggs, vegitables, fishes, meats, pickles, soisauce and other condiments, snacks, and so on, and saucepans, pans, tablewares, soaps, familyhold medicines, mats and matresses pillows and sets of sleeping, and thir clothes, towelings,and others. Under merely a few electric pawoer and systems prepaired for them, they lived in suca a unconvenience site as in myhome. So they cannnot stay here with fully holidays mind.

They came in here the same day on every year, and stay here during traditional fixed days, this hotspring is 11days. Seeing the artless in melting a mind and a body into the nature to heal, I thougt there was a bottomcurrent of our culture. All of styls of life and idea in here were desided by the experiences and taraditional talks of the effects of this hotospring

I thought that such hotspring sites will disappear rapidly,then , shall I note and take photos of them? At the same time, I fall into the qestion, the convention like this was universal in Japan or in ancinet ground in this area?or another conventions are?