This weeks Photo Hunt topic is Heavy. As you can see in the photo, not only is Japanese Sake, 酒, “Heavy Liqueur”, but it is also heavy to transport in it’s traditional barrels. Each barrel contains about 70 liters of Sake, so your looking at 3-4 men to lift a single barrel. I took this photo last year on a trip to Hokkaido during Golden Week, the equivalent of the traditional Christmas Holiday in Australia. It was taken at a Sake Factory in Asahikawa, also famous for ramen. Unfortunately I was driving so I couldn’t enjoy the pleasure of a class or two.

As always the original Royalty Free Digital Photo is available on my .Mac site.

heavy [ˈhevi] adjective
having great weight; difficult to lift or carry
Example: a heavy parcel
Arabic: ثَقيل
Chinese (Simplified): 重型的
Chinese (Traditional): 重型的
Czech: těžký
Danish: tung
Dutch: zwaar
Estonian: raske
Finnish: raskas, painava
French: lourd
German: schwer
Greek: βαρύς
Hungarian: nehéz
Icelandic: þungur
Indonesian: berat
Italian: pesante
Japanese: 重い, おもい, omoi
Korean: 무거운
Latvian: smags
Lithuanian: sunkus
Norwegian: tung, solid, massiv
Polish: ciężki
Portuguese (Brazil): pesado
Portuguese (Portugal): pesado
Romanian: greu
Russian: тяжёлый
Slovak: ťažký
Slovenian: težek
Spanish: pesado
Swedish: tung
Turkish: ağır