Satoyama II: Japan's Secret Water Garden

landscape of terraced rice fields, with small streams, coppice woods, and scattered homes. These places of everyday life, shaped by people over many long years, are called “satoyama” and “satoti.” Following the 1999 broadcast, Visual Poem: Satoyama — Do You Remember? The Landscapes of Home, this program conducts fixed-point coverage of the seasonal changes of Japan’s traditional rural scenery, evoking a sense of nostalgia. The theme of this episode is “Water.” In settlements near Lake Biwa, a system known as kabata—which brings spring water into the home—still remains and is used in daily life. This flow descends toward the lake while nurturing many living creatures, and in the rich reed beds spreading along the lakeshore, numerous fish such as carp and crucian carp gather to spawn. The program depicts a world of people and living beings whose lives are closely intertwined with water. (Source: Japanese = bpcj.or.jp/program || Translation = kisskh) Edit Translation

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