Japanese Rice Paddy Crop Art



Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.

Rice Art1

This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to appear. It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.

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The design from 2006 and 2005 are as follows:

Rice Art2

Rice Art3

More images can also be found on this Japanese site…

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2 comments   |  2,234 views  |  categories : Crafts, Japan

1 steamy kitchen { 07.25.07 at 4:42 pm }

very cool! gives whole new meaning to crop circles

2 LunaPierCook » Blog Archive » Rice Paddy Crop Art { 07.25.07 at 4:47 pm }

[...] Jaden at Steamy Kitchen just pinged me about these great photos illustrating Japanese Rice Paddy Crop Art: Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety … This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to appear. It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September. [...]

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