LSE4325838 The cultivation of rice: first stage, after irrigation of the land, the soil of the plot is returned by the plough and grind under the feet of buffalo and ploughers, who brew the silt to the middle leg and break the recalcitrant clods with a beche; then men and women advance on the dikes and proceed to the sowing. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The cultivation of rice: first stage, after irrigation of the land, the soil of the plot is returned by the plough and grind under the feet of buffalo and ploughers, who brew the silt to the middle leg and break the recalcitrant clods with a beche; then men and women advance on the dikes and proceed to the sowing. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.