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| Home-Stay Weekend in Ogawa Rice-Planting in the Spring 2004 |
| ２００４年５月１５日に開かれた田植えの様子です。 The following pictures were taken during the rice-planting on May 15, 2004 |
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| 準備万端スタートを待ちます Waiting to begin the rice-planting... |
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| いよいよスタート The rice-planting begins. |
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| なかなか、順調のようです Hey... not bad for foreigners!!! |
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| 増子さんの「田植え唄」のご披露です 横で録音している人もいます Mashiko san is recorded as he sings a traditional rice-planting song. |
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| 半分ぐらい終わったでしょうか Nearly half-way there! |
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| 昼食のメインは「流し素麺」 実は、流れ落ちる一番下（最後）が一番良く取れます The lunch party begins! The main meal is nagashisomen − catching noodles that slide down a bamboo slide! By the way, the best place to catch them is at the bottom of the slide after people have missed catching them! |