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This year, "Hakuzuru Nishiki", which was planted on June 15, grew and the harvest time was reached.

Click here for an article about rice planting this year.

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Sake rice (Sakamai) is rice that is the raw material of sake.

Shiratsuru Sake Brewery started breeding Hakutsuru Nishiki with the aim of elucidating the excellent characteristics of Yamada Nishiki, the best varieties of sake rice, and developing even better sake rice.

In 1995, we started crossing the varieties "Wataribune", the father of Yamada Nishiki, and the mother "Yamadabo", and the excellent varieties were registered as "Hakutsuru Nishiki" in 2007.

Rosemari has been introducing rice planting and rice harvesting here since rice harvesting in 2017.

Before COVID-19, we invite applicants and international students to experience rice planting and rice harvesting.

In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection this year, rice planting and rice harvesting will be done only by Hakutsuru Sake Brewery employees.

On October 27, the long-awaited rice harvesting was carried out.

The weather is cloudy while cutting.

It was raining lightly until just before, and with the completion of rice harvesting, it was a lucky rice harvesting that was light rain again.

Approximately 20 employees of Hakutsuru Sake Brewery participated in today's rice harvesting work.

Now, go up to the roof of the building and start harvesting rice for 15 years.

First, we interviewed Ayumi Yamada, the team leader of Hakutsuru Ginza Tenku Farm, in front of the rice field before cutting.

How was the rice growing this year?

"I have grown steadily since the rice planting on June 15, but the temperature has been low since the end of the tray, so it was about one week to 10 days later than usual until the ears came out .

Since the fall, there has been no influence of the typhoon and the temperature has risen a little, so I was thinking that I could get back, but I couldn't go there a little, but today's day was a little slow I was able to greet you.

I think it's okay because it's getting golden, but if I also visited Seibu Landscaping (I'm helping), do you say that this year is more fruitful than usual, or the bundle is large, There was a lot of feeling, so if you get it properly, you can expect a good yield, so I'm looking forward to it a little bit. "

Have you decided the date of the grade inspection?

"It's November 17th.

After this, the schedule is packed. It's pretty close."

・・Thank you very much, Mr. Yamada.

Next, Kensuke Oike, who was previously in charge of this Tenku Farm.

I told you when the reaping began.

Have you been watching Tenku Farm all the time?

"I'm still in the Tokyo branch office, so I'm going to see it a little bit up (no farm).

I was wondering if it was good this year, but it was good halfway.

I thought it was a little too early, but the weather was irregular in the second half of August.

I've heard that it was so good, and I wondered.

(Until now) I don't think I've harvested it in the last week of October.

It's about a week or two weeks ago."

There are some places where growth is not good.

"(I didn't leave a part and cut it) before.

I think Seibu Landscaping's decision.

The rice is browner (usually old).

After all, it must be hot when it's hot.

There was no typhoon, but the temperature moved up and down this year."

ーI'm also worried about grade screening.

"I have to be more than 3 mag. I can't do anything if it's usually rice.

Even when I was Takao, the predecessor team leader of Tenku Farm, I always got a second prize, but I can't afford to be out of my choice. There is such a situation.

ーーYou have to be the best and the lowest second magnitude.

"That's right.

The worst 3rd magnitude is fine, but if you go for the 3rd magnitude, you can't do it, so I'm trying to aim for the 2nd magnitude.

It's a one-shot game.

ーーWhen will you become a designated rice in Tokyo?

"No, it's impossible, because it's not a farmland.

First of all, it's not a farmland."

So here in Tokyo, no matter how good it is, the second grade rice is the best for Shiratsuru Nishiki.

"Yes, (Hakuzuru Nishiki) receives" First class rice "in Hyogo Prefecture, so it is originally registered there.

In Hyogo Prefecture, there are many people at the laboratory and there are many days of inspection, but in Tokyo there are only two more houses, and it is only one day of inspection. "

・・Thank you very much, Mr. Koike.

We also talked to Ayumi Fujishiro of Seibu Landscaping, who is helping with the Tenku Farm, during the mowing.

This is the person on the left side of the image.

I think it was quite difficult this year.

"Yes, the temperature has dropped, and it's just raining.

I was worried that I couldn't make it in time, but I'm glad the temperature was high in the second half.

I've been catching up quite a bit in October."

-It seems that the inspection date was decided to be November 17th, so Seibu Landscaping was thinking about the mowing date accordingly.

"Yes, it was quite pressured."

ーIn the meantime, there was a lot that was not in time for the mowing.

"The sunshine is so bad that it may be that long that it becomes a shadow of the sign.

If the sun doesn't hit, the temperature won't rise."

ーThe place will become a shadow from around noon.

"This is still good because the sun comes diagonally, and this is the morning sun."

Rice is delicate, isn't it?

"Do you say obedience?"

Well, that's right.

・・Thank you very much, Mr. Fujishiro.

The rice is gradually harvested and bundled with strings.

The rice harvested about 40 minutes from the start of the harvesting is used to hang the rice on the drying stage.

The last interview is Kotone Sato, the representative of this year's Special Guest 2021 Miss SAKE Tokyo.

We talked to Mr. Sato after harvesting rice with Hakutsuru Sake Brewery employees.

I asked Mr. Sato during the rice planting. Certainly, when I was in elementary school, I had the experience of planting "bucket rice" at elementary school.

"Yes,"

ーThis is the first time I have entered the rice-harvesting rice field.

"Yes, it was my first time when I planted rice."

How was it?

"Do you say you focused too much on rice this time?"

Do you mean that you don't cut your hands?

"Yes, I couldn't cut it with a sickle, at first.

So, "I cut it diagonally up" (I have advice).

The last one was easy to put it in with the tail."

Did you enjoy it?

"Yes,"

ーWhen I planted rice, Mr. Sato was struggling with boots.

"The rice planting was watering, so it was hard at that time.

So I didn't know exactly what the soil was when harvesting rice today.

But according to the information I heard from some people, low boots are okay.

I was imagining that there was no such water.

But on the other hand, there was water."

ーーIt's muddy, isn't it?

"I wondered today whether this is the effect of rain or whether it is deliberately wet.

Yes, it was fun. I can't be buried today."

You were from Itabashi-ku, where you don't have the opportunity to see the rice fields.

"There is no rice field, there are fields, but I've never seen rice fields at all."

ーYou said you often drink alcohol, how about these days?

"Yes, because of declaration of a state of emergency, I feel a little lonely when I drink at home.

I haven't refrained from drinking separately, but I'm getting self-restraint."

It's time to come.

"From now on, yes,"

The rice harvested here also becomes sake. I think it will be a good drink, so be sure.

"Yes, please. I'm looking forward to it."

・・Thank you very much, Mr. Sato.

・・・ I can't wait for that day when the cut sake rice becomes a fine sake.

5-12-5, Ginza

It's a building opposite the traffic light corner of Kabukiza.

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