A small collection of rare vintage pictures taken by photographer Nobukuni Enami that shows all stages of tea production in Shidzuoka, Japan in the early 20th century.
(Photos by Nobukuni Enami, via Presbyterian Archives Research Centre New Zealand)
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| Picking tea leaves |
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| Picking tea leaves |
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| Picking girls take rest in the tea plantation |
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| Girls on way home from the tea field |
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| Rolling and drying tea leave |
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| A tea picker is paid by the weight of tea leaves |
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| Farmer selling green tea in the market |
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| Sifting dried green tea |
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| Re-fining and sorting green tea |
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| Re-firing pans of green tea |
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| Re-fining the green tea by motor power |
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| Re-firing green tea in paper pans |
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| Re-firing green tea in paper pans |
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| Girls picking out sticks and unrolled leaves of tea |
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| Girls packing tea in paper bags |
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| Certain quantity of dried tea weighed and bagged |
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| Bagging the dried tea for foerighn markets |
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| Packing the dried tea for shipping |
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| Steamer taking in the tea chests from the lighter |
(Photos by Nobukuni Enami, via Presbyterian Archives Research Centre New Zealand)
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