My parents’ house is surrounded by the rice fields and the forests. So, many wild animals (weasel, partridge, sometimes dogs and cats, etc) appear in the parents’ house.
When I woke up in the morning, I heard a scream of pheasant. It was very high-pitched and piercing voice, so anyone was able to hear it even if they were in the distance. The female pheasant was a dark color, but the male pheasant’s feather was the myrtle green, and it received light, and shined. Therefore, he was very beautiful.
My father is a staff of the city hall, and he had held a forestry-related department before. At that department, when the information that a bear appeared arrived from citizen, he went to exterminate a bear with local hunters. One day (it was a holiday), he brought a “souvenir”. It was a bear’s head! Furthermore, the hide of it was already peeled off, so it was like a heavy ball which was dyed red with blood. I asked him, “Why did you bring such a thing?”, he answered, “I called at the house on the way to the research facility of the prefecture, and I wanted to show you it.” And I asked, “Why was the hide of bear’s head peeled off?” He answered, “The whole hide of the bear was peeled off and the hunters took it home. And they took most of the meat of the bear home, too.” Though the living bear is terrible, it’s horrible to see such a vivid figure.
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spiri
// Jun 5, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Excellent writing! Where did this happen? If the town is not famous, which prefecture? Too bad you didn’t get a chance to eat some bear meat rather than seeing, as you say, such a horrible sight. When I first visited the brother of Rika (my wife), he and his wife prepared bear “nabe” for us! The mean was very dark, fatty, and quite tasty. Anyway, it’s too bad that bears have to be killed sometime, but when they wander around villages it has to be done. It sounds like you had a rich childhood experience.
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