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28.09.2025, Puhmu. Late September in Estonia marks the buckwheat harvest, with fields turning golden-brown as the season shifts into autumn. PHOTO: Ain Liiva/Virumaa Teataja

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Harvest season

28.09.2025, Puhmu. Late September in Estonia marks the buckwheat harvest, with fields turning golden-brown as the season shifts into autumn. PHOTO: Ain Liiva/Virumaa Teataja

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Harvest season

28.09.2025, Puhmu. Late September in Estonia marks the buckwheat harvest, with fields turning golden-brown as the season shifts into autumn. PHOTO: Ain Liiva/Virumaa Teataja

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Harvest season

28.09.2025, Puhmu. Late September in Estonia marks the buckwheat harvest, with fields turning golden-brown as the season shifts into autumn. PHOTO: Ain Liiva/Virumaa Teataja

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Harvest season

28.09.2025, Puhmu. Late September in Estonia marks the buckwheat harvest, with fields turning golden-brown as the season shifts into autumn. PHOTO: Ain Liiva/Virumaa Teataja

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Victory Harvest Conference in Kyiv

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YANCHI COUNTY-BUCKWHEAT FLOWERS (CN)

(230819) -- YANCHI, Aug. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 18, 2023 shows blooming buckwheat flowers in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. With a total cultivation area of 661,000 mu (about 44,067 hectares) this year, buckwheat in Yanchi County is in full blossom. (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)

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Traditional dance performed for Hokkaido tourists

HAKODATE, Hokkaido - The traditional ''Matsumae Kagura'' dance is performed by two Shinto priestesses in a buckwheat field in the southern Hokkaido town of Fukushima on Sept. 1. The dance has a history of more than 300 years.

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Rising buckwheat price pressures soba shops

TOKYO, Japan - Soba noodles are served at "Chitosean" in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. Soba noodle shops are facing difficulties due to the skyrocketing price of buckwheat, mainly imported from China, caused by a lean harvest and weak yen.

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Soaring buckwheat price hits soba shops

TOKYO, Japan - Soba noodles are prepared at "Chitosean" in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. Soba noodle shops are facing difficulties due to the skyrocketing price of buckwheat, mainly imported from China, caused by lean harvest and weak yen.

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'Kanda Yabu Soba' shop to reopen on Oct. 20

TOKYO, Japan - Newly rebuilt "Kanda Yabu Soba" -- a buckwheat noodles shop in Tokyo -- is shown on Oct. 6, 2014. It will open on Oct. 20 at the same location following the completion of the rebuilding of the traditional shop after it was hit by fire in February 2013.

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Japanese expert, Filipino farmer check buckwheat flowers

BUMBARAN, Philippines - Japanese agricultural expert Takeyoshi Sumikawa (L) and a Muslim farmer examine buckwheat flowers in Bumbaran on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on April 19, 2014. The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group signed a final peace pact in March, ending about 45 years of conflict.

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Filipino farmers crop buckwheat in post-conflict Mindanao

BUMBARAN, Philippines - Japanese agricultural expert Takeyoshi Sumikawa (L) and Muslim farmers smile as they hold up newly harvested buckwheat in Bumbaran on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on April 19, 2014. The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group signed a peace pact in March, ending almost 45 years of conflict in the island's south.

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Bowl with face of mascot of Iwate Pref.

MORIOKA, Japan - A woman holds a bowl with the face of one of the five "Wanko Kyodai" (wanko siblings), which are mascots of Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, at a noodle restaurant in Morioka in this undated photo. Wanko soba, or buckwheat noodles served in small bowls, is a specialty of Iwate.

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Bhutan official working to lift soba consumption

AOMORI, Japan - Bhutanese agriculture ministry official Gaylong cuts "soba" buckwheat noodle with a knife while learning soba making during his stay in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, in August 2012.

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FEATURE: Farmers strive to grow new buckwheat varieties

NAGANO, Japan - Tourists flock to Nagano City's Togakushi district, which is famous for ''soba'' buckwheat noodle shops.

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HANDMADE "SOBA"

HANDMADE "SOBA"==Date:Feb, 1980, Place:Tokyo,JAPAN (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Station-side robot demonstration experiment started by Connected Robotics and others

On the 16th, Connected Robotics (Koganei City, Tokyo), in collaboration with JR East Startup (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo) and Nippon Restaurant Enterprise (Taito Ward, Tokyo), began a demonstration experiment of an "ekisoba (buckwheat noodle) robot" at a soba (buckwheat noodle) restaurant in JR Higashi Koganei Station. The aim of the experiment is to verify the practicality of the robot in actual shops, and to introduce it to other shops in the future and automate the entire operation. The boiling machine and sink were also custom-made to fit the robot. In the future, the company hopes to increase the processing capacity of the robot and introduce it at stores with a large number of customers, such as Shinjuku and Kanda in Tokyo. (March 16, 2020, JR Higashi Koganei Station, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Soba and Tempura

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Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 5

5 Hodogaya - A bridge over a stream, and across it two coolies are carrying a closed kago towards a village on the opposite bank; behind the village rises a low wooden hill. At this countryside station the travellers had covered a distance of 34 km from Edo and were well into the mood of travelling. By the bridge stands a restaurant which serves Soba (buckwheat noodle) and waitresses stand in front beckoning travellers to the restaurant. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

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Shimane train stationmaster makes, sells soba noodle lunch boxes

Tetsuya Yuzuriha, JR Kamedake Station's stationmaster who also runs a soba buckwheat noodle shop at the station in the town of Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, holds lunch boxes on Aug. 12, 2015. He gets up at 5 a.m. to make soba and sells lunch boxes on the platform to train passengers while managing the station as the stationmaster at the same time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shimane train stationmaster makes, sells soba noodle lunch boxes

Tetsuya Yuzuriha (2nd from L), JR Kamedake Station's stationmaster who also runs a soba buckwheat noodle shop at the station in the town of Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, sells lunch boxes on the platform to train passengers on Aug. 12, 2015. He gets up at 5 a.m. to make soba while managing the station as the stationmaster at the same time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinto ritual performed in buckwheat field in Hokkaido

A Japanese Shinto ritual is performed to pray for a bumper crop in a fully grown buckwheat field in Fukushima, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Aug. 30, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional dance performed for Hokkaido tourists

HAKODATE, Hokkaido - The traditional ''Matsumae Kagura'' dance is performed by two Shinto priestesses in a buckwheat field in the southern Hokkaido town of Fukushima on Sept. 1. The dance has a history of more than 300 years. (Kyodo)

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A family eating noodles

This seems too big to be real soba (buckwheat noodles). The photograph depicts a fashionable scene from Edo culture. The man in front of the brazier has a topknot, indicating that the tide of Westernization had still not reached this family.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐1‐0]

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A soba restaurant

The photograph captures the scene of a man about to enjoy a meal of buckwheat noodles in the bowls lined up. Two women are standing in the rear, holding soup and spices for the noodles.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐4‐0]

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Delivery of soba,buckwheat noodle

A man with a top-knot holds a tray with steaming baskets over each other in his left hand, and holds a lantern in his right hand. The basckets were piled up in 9 or 6-layer trays. This 9-layer tray has the character fuku lucky on it.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐23‐0]

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