Japan Rice Paddy

[FeileCase]

I'm glad I could see this too.

[hlhover]

Looks like a lot of work goes into farming rice. Very interesting!

[softypapa]

@hlhover Hi Heather! This is a lot of work though the farmers here would not have it any other way. The life of farming is a very old and important part of life here and it's hard to imagine the community revolving around anything different. I hope that you and your family are enjoying a nice weekend. ~Kurt :-)

[isti36isti]

Thank you for the wonderful tutorial,

you are awesome.

Take care ^ - ^

[advisorette]

Hello spider !

[shepherdbaba]

nice. a rare treat to see such things.

[patsybob]

in french breakfast is petit dejeuner

Lunch is dejeuner

Dinner is diner

Snack is Gouter

also my accents arent in :( im terrible at accents and with the computer!

Lolz this is like revision i try to write out the french definitions when you spell the japanese definitions :D

[fulcher33]

Quick Japanese lesson for you and your viewers, Kurt. Using the word "gohan" when talking about rice is referring to it in it's cooked state. Uncooked rice is called "kome". The word "kome" can be used for rice whether it's raw on the stalk like this or in a bag in the supermarket. A lot of times you will here it said as "okome". Either way, with the o or without.

[softypapa]

@fulcher33 Hi Jim, Thank you so much for reminding me of this distinction. I have added your comment to the info section (citing you as the source of course) with summary reference in annotations for the benefit of other viewers. Thanks again. See you at work! ~Kurt :-)

[tasatasat]

@fulcher33

My wife's japanese from Osaka and we always refer to rice as gohan..."can you clean gohan?" "Can you cook gohan for me?" Just examples of what she tells me. :)

[fulcher33]

@tasatasat if you're saying "Cook gohan" you're ultimately talking about it in it's cooked state. As for cleaning, I have no answer for that, neither does my Japanese wife. Must be an Osaka thing.

[tasatasat]

@fulcher33

Osaka thing or she is speaking more easily for me because of my limited Japanese. Never bothered to ask.

[fulcher33]

@tasatasat Don't feel bad. I've been here 20 years, speak fairly well, and people still talk to me like I have no idea what they're saying. hahahaha!!

[tasatasat]

@fulcher33

Haha, I know how you feel. We live in the US but when we're around Japanese people they treat me the same, or sometimes if I speak a little Japanese they think I understand it fully and will just start talking away and I get lost. :)

[AndreR241]

Hey Kurt, thank you for this video. You show very rare stuff to us, which I could never find on TV or somewhere else. It's not always the huge, spectacular things, but the tiny impressions, which can make a video or even a complete country interesting and worth visiting.

[DocGt21]

Cool fact about the Language there.

Theres something similar in german:

"Brot" means bread.

And "AbendBROT" is another word for dinner.

Though breakfeast and lunch are different since that is the time you eat Weißwurst or Schnitzel, maybe with Sauerkraut and potatoes.

Nah, just kidding.

But it is interesting since bread was the side/main dish here, even before the roman empire. Untill eventually potatoes and rice were brought to Europe.

Language evolves, but some history remains inside.

[AndreR241]

@DocGt21 You are also interested in linguistics?

[DocGt21]

@AndreR241 I like languages. Not much of a learner though. Did you know that the chinese sign for "s**t " is composed out of the signs for "body" and "rice"?

Pronunciation is totally different though.

[AndreR241]

@DocGt21 No, I didn't, but I'm very interested in such typographic knowledge.

[wtfbroskie]

can you make more tea videos????

[Claycat4]

Lovely!

I love rice, but I have been eating brown rice for a few years, because I understand it is better for you.  Do many people in Japan eat brown (unprocessed) rice, or do most people eat the white rice?

[TheGhostOfSabotage]

Looks good would love to see the field being harvested myself that would be something to see! :)

[nagaempress]

HEY that bamboo pole looks just like the one that was on the side of the road with the spiders! at the "Japan Mystery Spot"....hmmmmm....

[ADZ23774]

@nagaempress thats what i thought,as soon as i saw it..

[CrrackTheSkye]

ひるごはん　を　たべます

while I was watching this :p

[every1lovesAalex]

Thats really beautiful:) hey Kurt on you hikes and walks do you ever come across little villages like fishing villages or something? Great vid keep it up!

[japanarchist]

It's great that you can see the beauty in something so commonly unnoticed and overlooked.

[PetraShadow]

nothing like hard work to make you feel proud to eat food.

[loczster]

you know that spider was mad. "Man no way did that guy just come up to my web and poked it".  LOL.

Great vid

[mamika302910]

man you live in paradise! i miss the smell of newly harvested rice and the nice obaachan and ojiichan in inuyama..

[trebornoican]

hhmm in the philippine we have 3 times of harvesting.

thanks for this vlog sir i am learning a lot. and a lil bit cute/scarry spider haha.

[AJSensei]

Nice video. Thanks!

[ElisabettaVS]

I totally agree with you, these little things, once one starts noticing them, are so beautiful and memorable and so special.