It is not yet decided when we will start to harvest the rice, one of the main jobs this autumn. Today we started to cut bamboo to build the “haza”,a construction on which the cut rice will be dried before threshing.

Altogether we have about 4 acres of ricefields, which will be harvested and threshed in 3 stages. As the autumn is also the taiphoon season in Japan, the excact timing of the harvest is determined by the weather conditions. The branches of the bamboo will be burnded in a big campfire which we usually have once a month after sesshin (also depending on the weather of course).