2011/05/18

Shiogama city,Miyagi Pref.

宮城県塩竃市

Sorry for poor english...
One of the most important port of Japan, Shiogama port. "Shio" means Salt, "gama" means huge steam pan. long time ago, many people produce salt from sea water in here named "mojio". "mojio" means "salt made from sea weed".

国内有数の漁港、塩竃港「塩釜」という字の方が一般的。



Some people stand to revive industrial activities in this tsunami stricken area. The pictures are scene of the people mend a broken steel wire.

港湾に男達が集まり、ワイヤーケーブルを修復している。これも復興に向けた活動の一つ



Increasingly water fill into rice fields. To fill rice field with water needs discreet points. Because water channel was broken, and existant under 0 sea level area, sea water is leaved in the fields. Simply they want to put away sea water from their field, but to fill water causes submerging rice field under the sea level field. Water feed needs Many check points, It's take a long time to fill up rice field.

田にはやっと水が入った。灌漑がダメージを受け水路も壊れ排水路も壊れ、上流から徐々に水位を確認しながらでないと、海抜マイナスゼロメートル地帯が水没する為、修復しながら水を流す。例年より相当遅い田植えだ。