thing rarely seen today

2009年10月14日 21時05分14秒 | 自分の意見の陳述
The landscape like this photo was common in this season of autumn in old days, that is, when I was young. But today it has been rarely seen. I was born in a farmer's home, then I am familiar with this kind of issue. In old days, in the perido when the machine of combine was not introduced, farmers cut off the rice with stalk from the ground of paddy fields with sickles. And they hang them up on wooden bars temporarily constructed on the paddy fields for some time, usually for a month or so. Over the period the hung rice with stalks on the bars became dried by the sun. And then farmers were to get the grains of rice by cutting them off from the stalks using some kind of simple equipment.

Today using combine makes these processes a at-a-time one.

Harvesting the rice was not easy work in my memory. I experienced farmer's works so much that I will never think I try to do the work now. Only looking at it. I am now just a critic. I never want to be a practioner.