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Rice Photo Gallery III Kazuko Tomiyama's 'Rice in Japan' Calendar (2002)
Rice Drying
(Nakada Town, Miyagi Prefecture)
Many of the numerous old methods of drying rice are still practiced today,
especially in Tohoku. Large-scale consolidation has stretched the paddy fields
to the edge of the mountains. Not only in the uplands but even on rich flat
plains like this, there are farmers who resolutely stick to traditional
ways. Here they have struggled to control the flooding of the Kitakamikawa. Used
for irrigation water the tamed flood water has fed the area's reputation as home
to prized Sasanishiki rice. A central pole is stuck in the ground, around which
sheaves are piled up in crosswise pairs, each higher layer overhanging the one
below. This is the way people have always done things here. | |
