hand-ploughs

Updated: May 9, 2025

Thenceforth successive sovereigns encouraged agriculture, so that the face of the country was materially changed. In the matter of farming implements, however, neither archaeology nor history indicates anything more than iron spades, wooden hoes shod with bronze or iron, hand-ploughs, and axes.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era