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Rice culture in Japan: Winnowing of rice with hand and machine – Antique Print

Rice culture in Japan: Winnowing of rice with hand and machine, [ca. 1935?] — historic photograph
Rice culture in Japan: Winnowing of rice with hand and machine, [ca. 1935?]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Rice culture in Japan: Winnowing of rice with hand and machine, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Winnowing, the step that separates rice grain from its chaff, is the particular subject here, shown both as hand labor and as mechanized work in Japan. The record dates the print to around 1935, though it carries a question mark and is based on an unverified caption card, so that date should be read with some caution. Rice was the foundation of rural Japanese life and agriculture in this period, and a side-by-side view of older hand methods and newer equipment captures a farming economy in transition. The picture is worth studying for the tools, the posture of the workers, and the way one harvest task could be done in two very different ways.

Created / published[ca. 1935?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Rice; Ph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,046 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157950

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