Rice-planting in Wajima

Rice-planting in Wajima

Rice-planting is conducted on May 10, 2025, at the Shiroyone Senmaida terraced paddies in Wajima, in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, hit hard by a major earthquake and torrential rain in the previous year.

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2024, shows cracks on Shiroyone Senmaida rice terraces, a government-designated place of scenic beauty, in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following a powerful earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1.

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2024, shows cracks on Shiroyone Senmaida rice terraces, a government-designated place of scenic beauty, in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following a powerful earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1.

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2024, shows cracks on Shiroyone Senmaida rice terraces, a government-designated place of scenic beauty, in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following a powerful earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1.

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2024, shows cracks on Shiroyone Senmaida rice terraces, a government-designated place of scenic beauty, in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following a powerful earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1.

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

WAJIMA, Japan - Volunteers from in and outside Ishikawa Prefecture take part in rice-planting in the Shiroyone-senmaida rice field in Wajima, a state-designated cultural asset on the Sea of Japan coast comprising a total of 1,004 small rice paddies. The volunteers will get 5-10 kilograms of rice in the autumn.

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

WAJIMA, Japan - Volunteers from in and outside Ishikawa Prefecture take part in rice-planting in the Shiroyone-senmaida rice field, a state-designated cultural asset on the Sea of Japan coast comprising a total of 1,004 small rice paddies. The volunteers will get 5-10 kilograms of rice in the autumn.

The People of Okunoto

The people of Okunoto. Farmers build thousand paddy fields. Fishermen, who do not have a fishing port, make salt in pumping salt fields. There are also migrant workers and peddlers. 　 The people of Okunoto, despite the rough seas of the Sea of Japan and the poverty of their half-farming, half-fishing existence, build Senmaida rice paddies (paddies built on sloping land), people make salt the old-fashioned way, the last of the Agehama salt paddies where salt is pumped with labor, the cutting down of Asunaro forests, a tribe of fishermen turned plasterers, women peddling fish, and women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida. Women peddling fish, women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida, a general merchandise market held in each village 　before winter preparations, and women leaving for Kansai in search of work before winter. The film was shot on an unknown date, and was released on November 4, 1960.

The landslide zone.

As we enter the plum season, we feature farmers in the Itoigawa region of Niigata Prefecture, which is plagued by landslides caused by torrential rains. Our heads droop as we look at the farmers who are working hard, undeterred by the fury of nature. The scars of 1961 linger in many places. 　 A bird's eye view of the Itoigawa region Mountain surface, cracks, men at work, countermeasure meeting at the administrative headquarters, evacuees, collapsing Senmaida rice field. The land that caused the landslide Residents' meeting inviting city council members Rooms of warped houses Exterior of houses Appeal at Itoigawa City Council, etc. *Date of shooting unknown, date of release: 1 June 14, 1963, .

Rice terrace illumination event in Japan

Rice terrace illumination event in Japan

Photo taken Nov. 11, 2015, shows a rice terrace lit up with 10,000 light-emitting diodes in Kamogawa in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan. The annual lighting at the Oyama-Senmaida terrace takes place for four hours from 5 p.m. every day through Jan. 4, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rice terrace illumination event in Japan

Rice terrace illumination event in Japan

About 21,000 solar-powered light-emitting diodes illuminate the Shiroyone Senmaida terraced rice paddies in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 8, 2017. The annual illumination event will take place through March 11, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

WAJIMA, Japan - Volunteers from in and outside Ishikawa Prefecture take part in rice-planting in the Shiroyone-senmaida rice field, a state-designated cultural asset on the Sea of Japan coast comprising a total of 1,004 small rice paddies. The volunteers will get 5-10 kilograms of rice in the autumn. (Kyodo)

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

Volunteers take part in rice-planting in Wajima

WAJIMA, Japan - Volunteers from in and outside Ishikawa Prefecture take part in rice-planting in the Shiroyone-senmaida rice field in Wajima, a state-designated cultural asset on the Sea of Japan coast comprising a total of 1,004 small rice paddies. The volunteers will get 5-10 kilograms of rice in the autumn. (Kyodo)

Weeding a rice field at Aso Valley

Weeding a rice field at Aso Valley

The caldera area of Aso has been used to grow rice since the Yayoi Period. According to myth, the deity of the volcano, Takeiwawatatsunomikoto, built the first rice paddy here. The photograph captures the Asodani area with the central crater located on the north side of Aso Gogaku (the five mountains of Aso) as viewed from the east. The area is commonly referred to as Aso no Senmaida ( Thousand fields of Aso ) with many narrow rice paddies one after another. At present, the farmed area has been redesigned in an arrangement of square rice paddies.==Date:1904, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐3‐0]

Shiroyone Senmaida light-up event in Wajima

Shiroyone Senmaida light-up event in Wajima

Small terraced rice paddies called Shiroyone Senmaida on steep slopes along the Sea of Japan in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, are lit up with about 21,000 solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lights on Oct. 15, 2016, the start of a light-up event until March 12 next year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shiroyone Senmaida light-up event in Wajima

Shiroyone Senmaida light-up event in Wajima

Small terraced rice paddies called Shiroyone Senmaida on steep slopes along the Sea of Japan in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, are lit up with about 21,000 solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lights on Oct. 15, 2016, the start of a light-up event until March 12 next year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo