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Un-pimp my rice paddy

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Following from an earlier post, Pink Tentacle has photos of them dismantling the fantastic art paddy field.

Dismantle that art!On September 30, about 900 volunteers participating in a hands-on rice farming tour began the annual harvest of the Inakadate village (Aomori prefecture) rice paddy art, which this year depicted a pair of famous Hokusai woodblock prints created with four different varieties of rice.

Written by Tony Kiernan

02 October 2007 at 3:51 pm

Pimp my rice paddy

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Via Pink Tentacle:

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.

Written by Tony Kiernan

20 August 2007 at 3:49 pm

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