Bakushu, The Time Of The Barley Harvest
(June 19, Fujimi-shi, Saitama-ken)
The word "Bakushu" is written "fall of the barley" in Kanji. It means the season of the barley harvest. This word is used in Tanka(Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables) or Haiku(a traditional fixed form of verse-in 5-7-5)as a season word expressing the early summer. That is, barley field was very familiar to Japanese. But the rate of barley's self-sufficiency on calory base is under 10%. We rely on import from USA, Canada, Australia.
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