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Rice culture in Japan: Plowing paddy field – Antique Wall Art

Rice culture in Japan: Plowing paddy field, [ca. 1935?] — historic photograph
Rice culture in Japan: Plowing paddy field, [ca. 1935?]. Historic photograph from the Barns & Farms 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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Plowing a paddy field is one of the oldest tasks in rice cultivation, and this view appears to show that work in Japan, though the record's date of about 1935 is a guess and the caption card's details are unverified. Rice had been the center of Japanese farming for centuries, and fields were typically flooded and worked by hand or with draft animals well into the twentieth century. Photographs like this one, catalogued under geography and rice, were often collected to document farming methods and rural life. Notice how the plowing is done in standing water, which shaped everything from soil preparation to the timing of planting.

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 × 1,053 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157949

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