A somewhat cooler breeze blows through the rooftop garden, causing the red dragonflies to dance around the silver grass. One can feel a deepening sense of the coming fall.

The end of the summer is the time to harvest the ripened rice. A hoe is used for this task. At first, the children wield their hoes gingerly and tentatively, but they gradually put their backs into it and cut the rice stalks down. Somehow it is a scene that evokes the promise of fall.

After harvesting, the shade of the rice was shaded for about 10 days, then threshing. The pedals of old-fashioned stepping thresher are rowed strongly by the children and dropped fir from the dried rice bundle.

Did jaggies in the roof garden become adults? A beautiful red mambo-colored red dragonfly tail. I am flying sweet around rice ear.

This is a silver grass called “fountain grass” that is so rare in Japan it does not yet have a Japanese name.