The Heritage Village

　　We stepped into the Heritage Village, which was built outside. I can't express how vast it was by a certain figure, but there were several houses, called Longhause, an old-style theater, a few large and small marshes, and the woods in a considerably wide area. What attracted me most was the simple structure of their traditional houses, which looked fragile and shabby to me. Then, abruptly, the image of thatched roof houses in Shirakawago in Japan, which were figured out to survive whether a hot summer or bitterly cold winter in the same era of Borneo's longhouses, came up to me. I admired the device of our Japanese ancestors on Borneo Island. We'd like to see how it is in Gaya street, and returned to the street.

マレーシア旅行記：　サバ州立博物館　屋外展示を見て

どのくらいの広さなのか数字で表すことができないのだが、かなり広い場所に、数件の家屋、劇場、沼、森などが広がっていた。家はロングハウスと呼ばれる集合住宅だった。温暖な地だからこそこういった建物で良かったのだろうが、もろく、みすぼらしくは見えた。同時期に白川郷の合掌造りなどを作り上げていた日本とは比べるべくもない。ガヤ通りが気になっていたため一回りしてホテルへ戻った。