Rural scenery narrative and field experiences

Farmers create rural scenery by farming agricultural land. Through this work they also create their own particular narratives of rural scenery, from memories of experiences in their rural area which we call a field. In this way each narrative seems to differ according to personal experience or the particular environment in each field. A rural scenery narrative becomes the narrative of everyone as the narration is repeated, and begins to influence or control the behavior of all members in a rural society. We call this a normative scenery narrative. Normative scenery narratives will differ according to the various experiences of farmers in rural fields. This paper aims to demonstrate how scenery narratives differ as a result of different field experiences in a case study of old Otamachi in Akita prefecture, Japan.