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A story about a wise old man who sets fire to the rice fields to warn the village of an incoming tsunami. Read the full text, listen to the audio, or download the PDF of this traditional fairy tale.
Once there was a good old man who lived up on a mountain, far away in Japan. All round his little house the mountain was flat, and the ground was rich; and there were the rice fields of all the...
A story about an old man who sets fire to the rice fields to warn the villagers of a tsunami. Read the full text of this classic tale adapted from Lafcadio Hearn's Gleanings in Buddha-Fields.
And there, where the blue sea had lain, so calm, a mighty wall of water, reaching from earth to sky, was rolling in. No one could scream, so terrible was the sight. The wall of water rolled in on...
Jul 16, 2022 · A story of a wise old man who sets fire to the rice fields to prevent a tsunami from destroying his village. The web page also includes a review of a book about the rise of Nazism in Germany and the climate crisis in 2022.
The Fire of Rice Sheaves (稲むらの火, Inamura no Hi) is a story based on the events of the 1854 Nankai earthquake's tsunami. Overview. Before the 1854 tsunami struck Hiro (now Hirogawa), Goryo Hamaguchi lit fire to sheaves of rice (inamura) to help guide villagers to safety.
The story of an old man and his grandson who save the people of their Japanese village by setting fire to the rice field on top of the mountain.
