From Japan, with Love: Rice Fields Drain

Entry #016:

2021 October 3

A typhoon passed through on Friday, so this weekend we have been experiencing “taifu-ikka” or “typhoon passes”. It is a phrase that speaks to the blue skies that shimmer above after the heavy wind and rains. Isn’t this pretty much life in a nutshell! Sometimes I can’t help but smile to the point of a little belly laugh at the radical difference that a day makes. Weather and otherwise. I grew up dancing, mostly classical ballet, and my teacher would always say that a piece can’t be high jumps and fancy turns alone. It’s the modest yet exceptionally technical footwork, and the deep plies or bending of the knees, that highlight and propel the showy bits. On the days of taifu-ikka, I love that everyone seems to have a smile on their face (under their masks), and a sort of hop in their step. A shared moment between strangers.

Hazé-gaké: of the many ways in which to sun dry rice bushels, hazé-gaké is one of the most common. It uses bamboo or other wood rods to create a structure that resembles a saw horse. Rice bushels are bound at the base, flipped upside down, and straddled across the horizontal rod to dry naturally in the sun and wind. 

♡ momoko

Microseasonal Stars

October 3 - 7

Autumn > Autumn Equinox > Rice Fields Drain

What are you harvesting this Autumn that you planted as a seedling earlier in the year?