Rice is eaten every day and rice farming takes an important part in Japanese agriculture. It is deeply embedded in the culture and can be found in the oldest stories and works of art as well as community activities of these days. Now that many people have left the countryside to work in the cities there are many projects where families from town can experience working as farmers. In autumn we often see them working together to harvest the rice.
Every year newly made scarecrows (案山子) line the fields and contests are held all over the country
What do I do with this?
The older girls seem to know.
The rice that grows at the edge of a field where the machine can't get to it usually gets cut with a sickle - by hand.
Loose rice stalks are gathered and fed into the rice harvesting machine, which cuts it and separates the grains from the stalks
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