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Rice drying

A traditional bamboo rice drying rack (haza) photographed near a Japanese village, Kamiyama, Shikoku Island, Japan. Previously these racks of rice drying in the sun were a common sight in Japan, but now rice is harvested by machine. Hanging the ears of rice on racks in the sun dried the rice grains more gradually, with less cracking of the grains and more flavourful, better-tasting rice.

rice dryingharvested ricebamboo rackhazarice fieldrice stalksKamiyamaShikoku IslandJapan

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  • Pascale GUY

    on December 5, 2021

    Great details I learned something today !

  • Terry Allen

    on December 2, 2021

    Many thanks everyone for the nice comments!

  • Donna McCommon

    on December 2, 2021

    Interesting information about the rice. Great shot.

  • Judith Sparhawk

    on December 1, 2021

    I never thought a lot about rice-drying, must admit it. Very interesting. I've seen pics of rice fields, but never after it got so tall that you could harvest like this.

  • Rick Willis

    on December 1, 2021

    Nice FInd Terry 😃...

  • Lgood

    on December 1, 2021

    I love seeing this traditional process for drying the rice. I realize it's more efficient and less labor intensive to do it by machine, but I like the romantic notion of how they did it before. Great and educational shot Terry!

  • Wayne Wendel

    on December 1, 2021

    I learned something today, great shot.

  • Byron Fair Photography

    on December 1, 2021

    Very cool.

  • KDP450

    on December 1, 2021

    Nice shot of the traditional drying process. Super composition.

  • Marc DeGirolamo Photography

    on December 1, 2021

    Nice shot of the old process and the bamboo racks…. :-)

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