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Rice Photo Gallery III Kazuko Tomiyama's 'Rice in Japan' Calendar (2002)
Tree dried rice
(Kawaguchi Town, Niigata Prefecture)
By stretching ropes between living trees rice can be dried high off the
ground. This breathtaking technique is just part of the ingenuity displayed by
villagers in this cold and humid upland where water from melting snow is led
into the paddy fields.
Any kind of locally available tree was planted to provide coppice trees for rice drying. Cypresses were grown, or chestnuts. Often poplars were specially brought in because they grow so quickly. | |
