出雲黒松 【パワーズウッド】

出雲黒松

黒松は島根県の県木です。
出雲は出雲大社があることでも有名ですが、日本神話「古事記」「日本書紀」で出てくる、因藩の白兎や国譲り神話で知られる地であり、神秘的で日本古代史とは切っても切れない重要な地です。
少なくとも100年以上経たないと木材としては使えないといわれ、その理由として心材の部分しか使えず、辺材の白い部分は柔らかく水分も多いのでカビが生えることがあげられます。
松くい虫や塩害にて急激に原木が減少して入手困難になっている非常に貴重な木です。

Kuromatsu (black pine) is the prefectural tree of Shimane Prefecture.
Shimane’s Izumo City is famous for its Izumo Taisha Shrine, but it is also known for Inaba's white rabbits and Kuniyuzuri myths that appear in the Japanese "Kojiki" and "Nihonshoki." Since ancient times, it has been an important, mysterious place, inseverable from Japanese history.
It is said that Izumo Kuromatsu wood cannot be used as a material until it has passed at least over 100 years of age – the reason being that only the heartwood is used, since the white part of the sapwood is soft and high in water content, which encourages the growth of mold.
This type of wood is very valuable and hard to obtain, because the amount of pulpwood available has radically declined, due to pine weevils and salt water damage.