European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V a Parade of ghosts guards this wheat Field in kanto Plains area. .-,.4- i a i j 1efense against Bird japanese formers Don t believe in giving Birds the idea the Welcome mat is Ever out. To fend off these feathered foragers the Farmers build elaborate scarecrows and dress hem in Kimonos Happi Coats or just White sheets. They also Fly kites Over their crop land to discourage airborne visitors. And they Point faces on round cloth covered discs and suspend them on strings so they move in the Breeze. The Farmers also Purchase special posters from priests at various shrines and hang them out in their Fields to protect their precious crops against storms droughts and other dangers. Rural Japan in the springtime might seem like a convention of halloween ghosts and goblins 9o some Occidental eyes. To is photographer Norman Zeisloft it looks the Way his photos show it on these pages. / % i pm a 5rv1 a % a. Bobbing faces suspended on string keep foraging Birds away. The Staps and strikes r1 v to a t