OZCUBAN Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 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 varieties that bring the images to life! TRULY A WORK OF ART! OZ
Bartolomeo Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 This definitely beats our Corn art we have here in the states Bart
PartagasIV Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 The first field reminds me of a Hiroshige seascape...really incredible and as Bart said, puts our corn field designs in the US to shame.
Ken Gargett Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 fab stuff but rice must pay well for them to have that much time on their hands.
Buch0 Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 Some people never cease to amaze. Such a unique and intricate piece of artwork. Unbelievable.
Jimmy2 Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 Looks like it was Photo shoped to me but if i am wrong it would be amazing...
yossie Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 I have been watching these via TV but never done with my eyes.
Ken Gargett Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 Looks like it was Photo shoped to me but if i am wrong it would be amazing... jimmy, if you look at those last couple of shots, it would suggest not photoshopped. amazing indeed.
thechenman Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 Very cool...but I still say its the handiwork of aliens...
LeafLover Posted February 22, 2010 Posted February 22, 2010 I want to do that with my hair! LOL. Those pics are amazing!
MIKA27 Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 I wonder if our rice will be dearer now seeing it is art work?
bunburyist Posted February 23, 2010 Posted February 23, 2010 wow. feel sorry for the dude who has to separate out the white n brown rice after it;s harvested tho...
Alberto_Magnus Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 That is genius. Too bad no good tobacco grows in Japan, they'd be great cigar-makers
ucla695 Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 That's legit...it'd be great to see them in person.
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