[BITList] Rice Fields in Japan

Fri Aug 19 15:22:59 BST 2011

Another view of the Japanese. Malcolm.  

RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN. AMAZING!!!

Looks ordinary enough.... but watch as the rice grows! Keep Scrolling
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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.

As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to
emerge.

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A Sengoku 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 warrior Naoe 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 their local 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 & viewers have to climb 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. 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 worker 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 year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot the
planting of four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to
life! TRULY A WORK OF ART!!!

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