Title: Transplanting Rice - Japan
Artist: The Philadelphia Museum
Silver gelatin photograph, 1910s.
Image size 9 1/2 x 12" (241 x 304 mm).

In the foreground of this photograph several women are seen engaged tri transplanting rice. The seeds are first sown in moist beds where the young plants grow up thickly. When a few inches high they are taken up and carried by men to the paddy fields. Here bunches of the young plants are scattered about. Women and children, working in water a few Inches deep, divide up the bunches and plant them in small tufts in the mud. In the flooded fields the rice grows till the season is about half over, when the water is drawn off. The dams seen in the picture between the fields, serve as paths as well as for the purpose of retaining the water. Soy beans and other vegetables are often planted on these dams so that no space may be wasted. The hats seen in this picture are of the peculiar broad flat form worn only by women. Men and boys Often wear broad hats, but theirs are of a more conical form. The women's kimonos are held up by belts while they are working, so that they reach hardly to the knee. On leaving the field, the belts will be loosened and the kimonos will drop as far as the ankle.

Condition: Very good condtion, some minor surface staining on back of photo board.