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Bamboo cutter, Kyushu

Japan

Bamboo shoots are a delicacy. They are cooked in soups, and occasionally eaten raw. They have to be hacked out of the ground as they first poke through the leaves. It's hard work.

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kanako onishi writes:

The man is trying to dig up a bamboo shoot in a bamboo grove. After rain, lots of bamboo shoots come out from the ground. There is a Japanese proverb, 'Ugo no takenoko', means 'bamboo shoots after the rain'. The expression means that several things happen one after another like bamboo shoots after a rain.

December 9, 2002