The Soil by Takashi Nagatsuka
A vivid, naturalistic portrait of early 20th-century rural Japan that follows village life through the seasons, tracing the daily labor, hardships, small comforts and social ties of peasant families; intimate scenes of farming, births, deaths and local disputes reveal both the dignity and the vulnerability of ordinary people as economic pressures and changing times test communal bonds and individual endurance.
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- 1910
- Nationality
- Japanese
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- Japanese
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- Tsuchi
- 土
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