ASPHALT III

かって日本最後の開拓の地といわれた北の大地。
人が移り住み大地に杭が打ちこまれ、荒涼たる
原野を切り拓き、コロポックル（蕗の下の神さま）の
存在をも信じたくなるような自然との苦闘の上に
土から生れる命だけを頼りに耕し、その地に定着すると
そこに新しい郷土が誕生する。
新たな環境に夢や情熱をいだいて来た人たちも
お天道さま次第のくる日もくる日も辛抱強く同じ作業に
追われそこに築いた唯一のよりどころも時代の盛衰に
ほんろうされ残骸を自然が元の姿にもどし、
去っていかなければならない人たちもいる。

Northern land once referred to as the last reclaimed land in Japan.
People migrated and nailed piles into the ground and pioneered devastated fields.
During painful struggles with the wild nature that make you really
want to believe in the existence of Koropokkur (God under Japanese butterbur), they dug the earth truly and only believing in the new
lives created from the ground. When people settled in this place,
that also marked a birth of a new culture.
Those who came with dreams and passion for new environment, they were chased by the same repetitive works day in and day out controlled
by the conditions provided by the Mother Nature's Sun.
What they have established were confused by the ups and downs of
the time period and what had remained eventually got taken away by
the power of nature and some were forced to leave from this place.