Rice Fields of Japan

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Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan ,

But this is no alien creation.

The designs have been cleverly PLANTED!

Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye.Instead, different color rice plants

Have been precisely and strategically arranged

And grown in the paddy fields.

A

s summer progresses and the pl

ants shoot up,The detailed artwork begins to emerge.


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ASengoku warrior on

horseback.

Has been created from

hundreds of thousands of

rice plants.The colors are created by

using different varieties of

rice plants,

whose leaves grow

in certain colors.

This photo was taken in

Inakadate, Japan.


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Napoleon on horseback, can be seen from the skies. This was created by

precision planting and months of planning by villagers and farmers.

Located in Inkadate, Japan.


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Fictional warriorNaoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives are featured on

the television series Tenchijin. Appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa in the

Yamagata prefecture of Japan.


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This year, various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan, including

designs of deer dancers. Smaller works of 'crop-art' can be seen in other rice-farming areas of

Japan, such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers.

The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice. Along

with theirlocal green-leafed Tsugaru, a Roman variety, to create the colored patterns in the

time between planting and harvesting in September.

The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields.


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From ground level, the designs are invisible and viewers have to climb to

the mock castle tower of the village office, to get a glimpse of the work.


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Closer to the image, the careful placement of the thousands

of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen.


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Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993. As a local revitalization

project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees.The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to

create the masterpieces.

In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers

grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year. But their ideas

grew more complicated and attracted more attention.

In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of

enormous rice paddy art. A yearlater, organizers used computers

to precisely plot the planting of four differently colored rice

varieties. That bring the images tolife!

TRULY A WORK OF ART !!

Rice Fields of Japan

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