List server
Season
- Season 1 1999-04-12
- Season 2 1970-01-01
- Season 3 1970-01-01
- Season 4 2002-01-01
- Season 5 2003-05-11
- Season 6 2004-04-12
- Season 7 2005-01-01
- Season 8 2006-01-01
- Season 9 2007-01-01
- Season 10 2008-01-01
- Season 11 2009-08-15
- Season 12 2010-02-23
- Season 13 2011-10-06
- Season 14 2012-08-17
- Season 15 2013-01-01
- Season 16 2014-03-30
- Season 17 2015-01-10
- Season 18 2016-01-09
- Season 19 2017-01-15
- Season 20 2018-01-14
- Season 21 2019-01-20
- Season 22 2020-01-18
- Season 23 2021-01-04
- Season 24 2022-01-23
- Season 25 2023-01-22
- Season 26 2024-01-21
Season 26 Episode
NHK Documentary - Season 1 Episode 1 Satoyama: Japan's Secret Garden
0.00 57 minutes Japan is a country of steep mountains surrounding wide flat plains where people have lived for thousands of years. On the largest plain lies the country's largest freshwater lake, Lake Biwa, which is not at all far from Japan's ancient, capital city of Kyoto. The slopes that stretch down towards the lake have been terraced. Here rice seedlings need shallow water in which to grow, and the neat, meticulously constructed paddy fields provide just this. Some of them have been cultivated continuously for thousands of years. Alongside them stand patches of woodland where, for centuries, the people have found their fuel and their food. This is a land that has been touched by people, yet the people tread lightly upon it. It's a land that has been ruled for centuries by the demands of the rice, yet it's still dominated by the rhythmic cycle of the seasons. Here is a landscape that the Japanese people hold so close to their hearts that they have a special word for it: satoyama.
