Tsuruoka Mountain Vegetables, Apr 2016

Mountain vegetable farmer Chie Sato walking through a wood looking for mountain vegetables near her home. Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, April 9, 2016. The city of Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture is famous for its sansai mountain vegetable cuisine. These foraged grasses, fungi and vegetables are also used by the mountain ascetics of the Shugendo religion.