Tanada Walking

TANADA 棚田 Rice Fields in Spring ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo rapeseed blossoms the earth filled with sunshine ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo collecting spring water the future starts shaping now ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo view toward our village

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a thousand old ponds -
a million frogs jumping -
a billion echoes

Now the fields are all full of water and the vallye reveberates !!



The Sound of Water, a discussion !

kawazu tobikomu ... one hundred frogs ... and more


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Rape blossoms (na no hana) . . . . . KIGO


Spring water (haru no mizu) . . . . . KIGO

It takes about a month until the spring water dripping out of the mountain has filled all the paddies in this huge valley. The distribution of water is one of the most difficult things and often cause of fighting among the neighbours ... In modern times, we have a huge pond, just in case the rain and mountain water is not enough to fill up until planting. But using the pumps to bring water from more than five kilometers away is expensive.
Being a farmer for terraced wet rice paddies is not easy. And thinking of the forefathers who started all of this, with no maschines and only human hands to work with ... These tanada seeme like the pyramids to me, just downward the valley!



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"Planting rice"
Ohno Bakufu (1888-1976)
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