Editing Gary Snyder (section)

===Kitkitdizze===
In 1966, Snyder joined Allen Ginsberg, [[Zentatsu Richard Baker|Richard Baker]], future Roshi of the San Francisco Zen Center, and [[Kriyananda]] aka Donald J Walters, to buy {{convert|100|acre|ha}} in the San Juan Ridge area of the Sierra-Nevada foothills, north of Nevada City, Northern California. In 1967 Snyder's book ''The Back Country'' appeared, again mainly a collection of poems stretching back over about fifteen years. Snyder devoted a section at the end of the book to his translations of eighteen poems by [[Kenji Miyazawa]]. In 1970, [[Chamaebatia foliolosa|Kitkitdizze]] (as he named his portion of the San Juan Ridge property) would become his home.<ref name="Suiter 251"/> By that point, Snyder had already spent the summers of 1967 and 1968 with a group of Japanese back-to-the-land drop-outs known as [[The Tribe (Buzoku)|"the Tribe"]] on [[Suwanosejima]]<ref name="Halper 94">Halper (1991) p. 94</ref> (a small Japanese island in the [[East China Sea]]), where they combed the beaches, gathered edible plants, and fished. On the island, on August 6,<ref name="Suiter 251">Suiter (2002) p. 251</ref> 1967, he married [[Masa Uehara]], whom he had met in Osaka a year earlier.<ref name="Suiter 250"/> In 1968, they moved to California with their infant son, Kai (born April 1968).<ref name="Suiter 251"/> Their second son, Gen, was born a year later. They were shortly able to move onto the San Juan Ridge property, near the South Yuba River, where they and friends built a house that drew on rural-Japanese and Native-American architectural ideas.