2011年5月11日水曜日

Back to Okinawa



This empty harness is for the water buffalo whose job it is to turn the sugar cane crusher. There was a time when these huge animals performed essential labor. Now, when electricity provides the power, water buffaloes are only a bit of nostalgia from Okinawa's colorful past.

[for a fictional look at water buffalo, check out the newest post in the Chura Writer blog]