Rice to see you, to see you...

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...plus lots of work equals this...
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I just got these in an email, and I thought it was brilliant! The 'agri-art' is created by farmers in Inakadate in Japan. From what I can see they just use a few varieties, golden, variegated, purple and the plain green leaved (Tsugaru Roman variety).

Apparently the tradition began in 1993, where a simple design of Mount Iwaki was installed every year for 9 years. Then the ideas grew more complicated.

The art covers 15000 square metres of paddy fields.

Another famous rice paddy is in the town of Yonezawa. This year the design shows the fictional 16th century warrior Naoe Kanetsugu, and his wife Osen.

More than 150,000 visitors trek to these agricultural landmarks every summer, where they can be viewed from a mock castle tower!