Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo Page #3
It makes me warm.
These hornets can fly
100 kilometers in one day.
So they have a lot of stamina.
Regular sake is 14 proof,
but because of the hornets, it's 50 proof.
I can get drunk, huh? In the afternoon!
When the wet-paddy rice system
became widespread in the 4th century,
it utterly changed the Japanese landscape,
taking on an aesthetic and moral weight
and becoming the embodiment
of a national identity.
The flooded fields and streams
of the rice paddies that covered the country
exaggerated Japan's already
lush, almost watery environment,
much to the benefit of the insects.
As both dragonflies and fireflies
the rice paddies became fertile breeding
grounds for the already abundant insects.
Not good... They seem wary.
It's big. Can you see it?
Maybe a beetle and a bee?
What is that thing...
that eye shining in the dark up there?
That's too high. I need a longer net.
- Catch it!
- Catch it...
A big one!
Show me!
This insect hasn't evolved.
For millions of years,
it has stayed the same.
That top one evolved and turned into
the moth, the dragonfly and the beetle.
International trade has
reduced the necessity
for such large-scale productions of rice
and Westernized Japan
has stretch its cityscapes
deep into the rice fields of the past.
With a certain nostalgia,
rice fields have become
thought of as an ideal,
time-honored, landscape
having taken on significance as
the quintessence of traditional
Japanese values.
Japanese people now call the
countryside of rice fields
furusato, or "One's home region,"
even if they have spent the whole of their
lives amid the crush of a crowded city.
The preservation of streams and ponds
as well as the reconstruction
of those damaged by urbanization
has been incorporated into
municipal policy across the country.
The reintroduced fireflies and dragonflies
environmental regeneration,
community rejuvenation
Insects are more than pets,
more than spirits in the cycle of reincarnation,
more than the subject of municipal policy.
Insects, in their miniscule being,
represent the entire history of a culture.
They are inscribed with all the
impenetrable mysteries of nature
and all the varying philosophies
of the human mind.
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