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Identifier: farmersoffortyce01king (find matches)
Title: Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram), 1848-1911 Bruce, J. Percy (Joseph Percy), b. 1861, ed
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: Emmaus, Pa., Organic Gardening Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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superb mosaics, shapedinto the valley bottoms by artisan artists perhaps two thousandyears before and maintained by their descendants through allthe years since, that on them the rains and fertility from themountains and the sunshine from heaven might be transformed bythe rice plant into food for the families and support for the nation.Two weeks earlier the aspect of these landscapes was very differ-ent, and two weeks later the reflecting water would lie hiddenbeneath the growing and rapidly developing mantle of green, togo on changing until autumn, when all would be overspread withthe ripened harvest of grain. What intensified the beauty of it allwas the fact that only along the widest valley bottoms were themosaics level, except the water surface of each individual unit, andthese were always small. At one time we were riding along adescending series of steps and then along another rising through awinding valley to disappear around a projecting spur, and any- MILLIONS OF TERRACES 339
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340 KETURN TO JAPAN whore in the midst of it all might be standing Japanese cottagesor villas with the water and the growing rice literally almostagainst the walls, as seen in Fig. 19G, while a nearby high terracemight hold its water on a level with the roofs. Can one wonderthat tlie Japanese love thtir country or that they are born andbred landscape artists. Just before reaching Hongo there were considerable areasthrown into long narrow, much raised, east and west beds under

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