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From How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka, photography by Michikazu Sakai
“Rice straw is both a cheap and an abundant material, and it uses are legion. Here, in an example from Kanto region (the eastern part of Japan, centering in Tokyo), it serves for stringing red peppers together before they are hung from the eaves of a farmhouse to dry.” Translated by R.F.
