Easy Life in Kamusari

, #1

206 pages

English language

Published Sept. 27, 2021 by Amazon Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-5420-2715-1
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3 stars (1 review)

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.”

At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

Yuki learns to fell trees and plant saplings. He begins to embrace local festivals, he’s mesmerized by legends of the mountain, and he might be falling in love. In learning to respect the forest on Mt. Kamusari for its majestic qualities and its inexplicable secrets, …

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The Easy Life in Kamusari, by Shion Miura

3 stars

What do you do with an adult son who has no ambitions and no motivation? Well, if you’re Yuki Hirano’s parents, you volunteer your son for forestry work in a remote corner of Honshu. The Easy Life in Kamusari, by Shion Miura, contains Yuki’s story of his first year in Kamusari, learning to tend its forests, and finally figuring out how to pull his own weight instead of drifting through life. This might sound like an ordinary bildungsroman and it would be, except that Kamusari is so remote that it might be one of the few places in Japan where the gods still roam...

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Forestry
  • Japan
  • Mountains
  • Gods