Title: The One-Straw Revolution
Subtitle: An Introduction to Natural Farming: The Visionary Modern Classic
Description: Leaving a career as a plant pathologist, the author took over the family farm in Japan consisting of rice fields and a mandarin orchard, where he developed and practiced pioneering methods of permaculture well before the term itself was coined.  His account of his Zen-inspired way of sustainable agriculture has become a classic in the literature of permaculture.
Places: Japan, Tokyo, Yokohama, Koshi Prefecture
Time periods: 1938 and after