Common People

Hiroshi Arakawa was born into a family that runs cheese livestock and farms in Tokachi, Hokkaido. Using Arakawa's parents' home "Arakawa Farm" as the main stage, the author describes the daily life of the farm family from childhood to the present, which contains the joy and connotation of engaging in agriculture. Describes the actual state of cheese husbandry and farming and the affairs of the Arakawa family. The family motto "If you don't work, you don't have food," runs through almost all of Hiro Arakawa's works. Regarding the title of "Common People's Nobles", Arakawa himself said, "The word "street farmers" is used in different terms. However, as an agricultural writer, I don't care about being called "peasant", and I don't agree with it if I am too neurotic." "If you worry too much about differences, the original meaning of the words will be lost or you will be troubled by what is not there."