時空の旅わくわく日記

あちこちの田んぼに水が入りだしました。

来週あたりには、田植えが始まりそうです。

【Bon appétit !】

Today, many family names have ta (田) which means rice field as a component, a practice which can be largely attributed to a government edict in the early Meiji Period which required all citizens to have a family name. Many chose a name based on some geographical feature associated with their residence or occupation, and as nearly three fourths of the population were farmers, many made family names using ta. Some common examples are Tanaka (田中), literally meaning "in the paddy field;" Nakata (中田), "middle paddy field;" Kawada (川田), "river paddy field;" and Furuta (古田), "old paddy field."

（https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_field）