[BITList] correction RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN

Wed Feb 16 17:46:28 GMT 2011

?sorry, that should read “first field” -  [the rice growing], not first pic....
ct

From: CT's 
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:32 AM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] Fwd: RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN

anyone know what the meaning of the writing in the first pic is?
--- it says, “inakadaro tsugaro roman”
colin t

From: Michael Feltham 
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:50 AM
Subject: [BITList] Fwd: RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN

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Date: 16 February 2011 09:36:51 GMT

Subject: RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN

                                                               RICE  FIELDS OF JAPAN – AMAZING

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

     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  colour 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. 

      A  Sengoku warrior on horseback has  been created from hundreds of thousands of rice  plants. The  colours are created by using different varieties of rice  plants, whose  leaves grow in certain colours. This  photo was taken in Inakadate , Japan  .. 

      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 . 

      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  .. 

    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 coloured patterns in  the time between planting and harvesting in  September.
    The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square  meters of paddy  fields. 

      From  ground level, the  designs are invisible, and  viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village  office to  get a glimpse of the   work. 

     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 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 year  later, organizers  used computers to  precisely plot the planting of four differently colored  rice varietiesthat  bring the images to life! TRULY  A WORK OF ART! 

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