A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their miserable fields.—Michael Jurich <jurich@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de>