Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Rice 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 (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.

The residents of Inakadate have been drawing pictures with rice since 1993. Here are a few crops from the recent past, found at this site.

2 comments:

Dx said...

Brilliant. Innovative. Entertaining.

dom said...

I love stuff like this, next Saturday we are off to Alnwick castle, I hope to hurry this along so we can visit York Maze & the corn festival... I posted about The Maize maze last week.