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  • Three-part composition showing terraced rice paddies climbing Japanese mountainside with flooded fields reflecting sky and young green rice plants, close-up of glossy sticky japonica rice in wooden bowl alongside raw grains and rice plant demonstrating high amylopectin character, and Shinto shrine offering of new-harvest shinmai rice with steam, illustrating rice as the organizing principle of Japanese civilization encompassing landscape, religion, and daily life.
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    The Grain at the Center: How Rice Made Japan

    The Grain at the Center: How Rice Made Japan Before it was a food, rice was a reason to organize a landscape, a calendar, a religion, and a state. To understand Japan, you have to start in the flooded field. Fly over rural Japan in early summer and the country reveals its oldest logic from the air. Between the mount...
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