Twenty years of searching for paddy landscapes, from Nagasaki in Kyushu to Yamagata in Tohoku, centred on the Tajima region of Hyogo and on Matsunoyama in Niigata. Light from between the clouds shines on the fields, mist wraps the young seedlings, terraced fields facing the sea each reflect the clouds, rice ears are hung on drying racks about ten tiers high, and animal tracks cross a field under snow. Paddies built and inherited by human hands are steadily decreasing, and the landscape that is vanishing reflects the problems of today's society. Carrying a tripod with a large-format camera, Haruto Maeda quietly photographed the fields and the people who live in them.