Sorry for the delay; we had a power outage for several hours, and by the time it was fixed, I was in the middle of running errands and getting lunch.
So how about running out FOR a survey before we run out OF surveys?
What are you afraid to run out of? • Remaining lives • Money • Talent • Oil • Hair
Reader-added tags include "Why is a mountain like hair?", "Poignant survey", and "Situation in which tea may not be tea if there's uncertain-tea." (Originally puns 気 and 木 ("feeling" and "tree"), both pronounced "ki".)
By the way......aren't the onbashira raised at the shrines rather big around?
For real!?
Main Shrine
Old Shrine
Spring Shrine
Autumn Shrine
Naive Doubts
So rest easy.
The onbashira for the Suwa Grand Shrine are grown on a mountain exclusive to that purpose.
Upper Shrine
Lower Shrine
So there's no way the supply would be exhausted.There are over 500 of them.Won't that exhaust the supply of trees used for onbashira?Even if it's only once every six years, four logs times four shrines means they use sixteen each time, right?