31 Seedlings in the Leaf Litter: A Shigara Field Report from Mie, Japan (75 Days)

On March 27, 2026, we installed a shigara — a traditional Japanese woven-stake slope stabilization structure — on an eroded bamboo hillside at Hounji Temple in Kameyama, Mie. 75 days later, we counted 31 oak and woodland seedlings. This is the field report: what broke through four ecological barriers, how we sort weeds into three categories, and why the structure is designed to disappear.

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