Japanese Rice Art

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Japanese Rice Art

Just go through the contents and pictures carefully.

It's simply a brilliant piece of work, that's why a tiny country like Japan was no. 2 economy in the

world till now. Any guess how many years we will take to reach to this level?

RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN - Looks ordinary enough...... but watch as the rice grows!!!!!!
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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 colour rice plants

have been precisely and strategically arrangedand grown in the paddy fields.


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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 colours are created by using different varieties of rice plants, whose leaves grow in certain

colours.

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 ofJapan ....


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This year, various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas ofJapan , 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.


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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.


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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 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 varieties that bring the images to life! TRULY A WORK OF ART

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