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[ 1900s Japan - Japanese Farmer Irrigating a Rice Field ] Rice cultivation in Japan: Irrigating a rice field with a waterwheel operated by stepping on it (ashifumi mizuguruma). This image comes from The Rice in Japan, published in 1907 (Meiji 40) by Kobe based photographer Teijiro Takagi. 4 of 19. 20th century vintage collotype print.