This kind of wood (犬薪？ 薪？ いぬまき？) is from some sort of pine-like, I think it's from the empty house down the road where the Kurogani Holly (クロガネモチ、 モチノキ) came from. These pine-like Maki trees are ornamental in a lot of Japanese style yards. And Invasive species of bug has been sucking out all their tree juices and kiling them for the last couple ears. I think this hung of wood is from one of the branches of a big tree that the bugs killed a year or so ago. The tree was still standing but day, maybe that makes the wood so hard to chop, it's more like ripping through the wood, even with small pieces. The surface is a nice color and shows beautiful designs. I'm trying to keep a couple of split-but-intact pieces around as objects for contemplation..
#WoodSplitting #薪割り #薪 #斧 #SplittingAx