Rice Fields of Japan
Transcript of 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 !!