A life at a small village in a country side can be said as a battle against weeds. Weeds are growing rapidly and fully cover the field or garden. These days, fallow rice paddy are expanding across Japan due to declining population and changing life style, which results in less rice consumption. Okuwa village is not an exception and many rice paddy including of my family are left as unused. If no action is taken, the field becomes a kind of jungle and has a severe impact to the landscape of the village. So, cutting grass needs to be done periodically.
The photos are my work of cutting grass with a brushcutter attaching a chipsaw blade at the point of the machine. The workplace is in the Wamura district, of which space is about 1,500 square meters (0.4 acre approx.). The Wamura district is at the opposite side of the Kiso River from the JR Suhara Station.
It took about five hours to clean the whole field including the ridge and adjoined field. Since the weeds grow rapidly as long as roots of them alive, I have to do the task three times at least in a year, especially in Spring and Summer. It is an inevitable mission of the villager who has a field.
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