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Rice Photo Gallery III Kazuko Tomiyama's 'Rice in Japan' Calendar (2003)
Echigo Plain
(Iwamuro Village, Niigata Prefecture)
The sight of heavy, drooping ears of rice is enough to make you smile. It
makes you want to thank heaven for the bounty of the earth. Incredibly coded in out genes, inscribed in our hearts and minds, this
appreciation runs in the blood of the Japanese. The monk Ryokan came from the flood
plain by the Shimano River. It was a low-lying land where tears followed in the
wake of floods. In the Showa Period, efficient drainage made the area the granary it has
become today. Rather than the instability that good and bad harvests bring, why
can't the government make it so that the people who grow and the people who eat
can unreservedly share their delight in abundant crops without a care for
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