稲いなむら

noun

stack of rice straw; rice-straw rick

Refers to a traditional conical or cylindrical stack of harvested rice straw, commonly seen in rural Japan after the rice harvest.

• 秋あきの田たんぼには稲いなむらがいくつも立たっていた。

  In the autumn rice fields, several stacks of rice straw stood.

• 昔むかしは稲いなむらを屋や根ねふきに使つかった。

  In the past, rice-straw stacks were used for thatching roofs.