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Rice Photo Gallery III Kazuko Tomiyama's 'Rice in Japan' Calendar (2004)
Harvest. Kokura Jinai
(Kami-no-yama City, Yamagata Prefecture)
The type of landscape that evokes nostalgia shows scenes that have a human
touch. It is the diligent care of human hands that naturally creates this type
of beauty. That is why they say, in farm households, that the harder the farming
conditions, the more the heart is moved by the scenery that results. In fact, it is just this kind of land that brings forth the abundance of
creatures. Here, at Shiginoyachi Wetland, diving beetles, water scorpions, water
bugs, giant water bugs, water mantises, and other predacious aquatic insects are
found, not to mention amphibians such as the Japanese tree frog, wrinkled frog,
and Shlegel's tree frog. The local children are particularly
proud that even the Japanese skimmer, a dragonfly suddenly rare elsewhere, still
flies and hovers here. In a project with students from Tokyo, the children are
carrying out a joint survey of the paddy field ecosystem. | |
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