From the archive, originally posted by: [ spectre ]
http://www.vill.inakadate.aomori.jp/ricecroptour/html/ricecroptour_progress_h18.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20031118011038/http://www.am.askanet.ne.jp/~tugaru/images/sight5/inakadate/siro/ina6.JPG
http://www.vill.inakadate.aomori.jp/
http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/rice_art11.jpg
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/
“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.”
Hokusai woodblock prints:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Views_of_Mount_Fuji_(Hokusai)
“The residents of Inakadate have been drawing pictures with rice since 1993.”
http://www.am.askanet.ne.jp/~tugaru/z-inakadate.htm
