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grass used for thatching

hayfield

maotai (variety of distilled Chinese alcohol)

thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house)

thatched cottage

abura-gaya (Scirpus wichurai)

broad field of sparsely growing cogon grass

cogon grass ring (through which people pass during summer purification rites)

Japanese foxtail (Alopecurus japonicus)

thatched cottage

sparsely growing cogon grass

thatched roof

thatched roof

Japanese accentor (Prunella rubida)

orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata)

black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)

thatching a roof (with grass)

black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)