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Symbol Exhibition "Development"

◎Sakhalin spruce(With the branch),Yezo spruce
  Age estimated at 170 years old
  Locality Bihuka

◎Painting "Development" Kimura Shoji 1971
  Kamikawa area of Meiji anaphase
  (The left half, at the time of the land clearing, the right half, appearance
   after 2-3 years from the land clearing )

 When it goes into the inside from the permanent exhibition hall entrance, the stupendous trees going through the ceiling as well entirely for the back, and that stump have the big mural that the people who applied themselves to the land clearing of the field were drawn there displayed. This is symbol display "reclamation". Will the thing that the trees which the people cut down in the mural were seen and it was here be able to be imagined as so big the thing as well from our present life? Did you reclaim the field where a predecessor grew thick in the life of the big tree by seeing a land clearing mural and the trees of yezo spruce,sakhalin spruce and a stump how? As for the house in those days and the meal, whether to be there again why. Isn't interest popular with the child as well who sees an exhibition hall from now? Proceed from the right path of the entrance to the permanent exhibition hall theme 1 with showing 16 sheets of figure which showed natural circumstance, and picture panel with the climate, soil, flora and fauna of Hokkaido and so on.

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