'Tambo Rice Fields: A Springtime Ramble in Rural Japan' shows rural family in Japan work in rice paddy. Sakura cherry blossom trees in full bloom. White rabbits chewing on grass. A kid nurses from goat. Water flows from waterfall. A water snake moves in the water. Farmers hoeing muddy soil. Farmers prepare water dikes to make rice paddies. A man uses a scythe to form a mud wall of the dike. A female farmer preparing the water dike. A baby cries near the rice paddy. The mother picks the baby from the small box. Mother breastfeeds the baby. The baby looks to the camera while nursing from her mother. Japanese woman smiles while holding her baby. Water is logged into the rice field. Woman spreads rice seeds. The family prepare rice seedbeds at start of springtime in Japan. April 1934.
Title card notes that Babe Ruth got a 'hero's ovation' when he came to Japan, leading an American all-star team that visited after the 1934 season. Brief shot of some team members shows Ruth in center, manager Connie Mack on right, and several other players. Game action at unidentified Japanese stadium. Japanese people watch the game featuring Japanese baseball teams and players. (Note: Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, an English professor at the Kaisei Gakko School in Tokyo. The first baseball team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878.)
An itinerant Japanese toy seller sells toys and candies to children in a rural village, Japan. Toy seller cycles to a rural village. The traveling toy seller begins to play drums and trumpet to attract children and mothers. A child plays with a toy gun from the toy seller. Toy seller sells lollipop to a child. Japanese child eating lollipop. April 1934.
A farmer works in a rice paddy in Japan. Farmer thin out rice seedlings in seedling bed. The farmer is wearing a hachimaki headband with geometric pattern. Another farmer spreading fertilizer on the seedlings. The farmer smokes with a Kiseru, a traditional Japanese smoking pipe. April 1934.
Silkworm cultivation in Japan. Workers gather and cut mulberry leaves in the foothills. Man cuts a bunch of mulberry stems. The workers take mulberry leaves to a village. A Japanese woman feeding silkworms with mulberry leaves. Closer view of silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves. Hand picking silkworms from leaves. Hand holding silkworms. April 1934.
Sericulture in Japan. Japanese workers pick up three-week-old silkworms from a tray. The workers place silkworms in dry straw to spin cocoons. Japanese women picking cocoons from dry straw. Women harvest cocoons after five days for silk production. A Japanese woman breastfeeding her baby. A Japanese girl ties harness on her body to carry an infant behind her back. The infant’s mother helps the girl tie her harness. Other children sit nearby. Japanese girl smiles while carrying a baby behind her back. Japanese children playing jump rope. One of the girls swinging jump rope is carrying an infant on her back. April 1934.