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Rice Photo Gallery III Kazuko Tomiyama's 'Rice in Japan' Calendar (2003)
The Izumo Plain
(Hikawa Town, Shimane Prefecture)
The capricious Hii River, famed in legend, is prone to raging floods and to
running dry. The soil and sand brought by floods have built the Izumo Plain,
where natural and human action have jointly made the land. Over history, the
plain you see today was created by again and again using river silt to reclaim
land from a lake. To deal with the persisting insufficiency of water, the functions of the
ancient system of sharing have been passed on to the modern irrigation
association. Sharing enabled the farmers here to get through the 1994 drought
without disruption. It also keeps alive spectacular scenery of farmhouses with
neatly trimmed pine windbeaks. (Here you see the Goemon River, which flows into
the Hii River) | |
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