Tag: Miasa Mura

They huffed, We puffed, Hemp held the House Down, 1698

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Mr. Nakamura’s 300 year old hemp house in Miasa Mura, Japan. Built in 1698 They huffed, We puffed, Hemp held the House Down In 1698, let me repeat that, in 1698 Mr. Nakamura’s ancestors built his family house in Miasa-mura, Read More …

Japan’s Beautiful Hemp Village, 1948

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When asked how much hemp used to grow in this region one farmer responded by saying, “Do you see these rice fields?” pointing to the vast checkerboard of rice fields we’d been cutting and bundling, “before the war, we didn’t Read More …