小豆洗い · Higashichikuma District, Nagano · 1943
The washer with a black towel over its head
What the record says
The azuki-arai comes out to the mountain stream wearing a black hand-towel over its head and washes its azuki beans there.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
In our articles
Azuki-arai
小豆洗い（あずきあらい）
A bean-washing sound repeats beside a dark stream, but the person making it cannot be found.