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I’m not sure if you guys have realized, but Miss C’s been posting some incredible links over on the right side of our homepage, and she updates them! If you haven’t been checking them out, here’s just one of the great posts you’ve missed out on.
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.
And here are a few others they’ve worked on. Pretty unbelievable. Be sure to check out PinkTentacle for more rice paddy updates, and the rest of Miss Cellania’s Morning Cup o’ Links over to the right.
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Those are gorgeous…isn’t it unbelievable what people can do for the sake of beauty?
posted by donner on 7-20-2007 at 12:43 pm
Aw, I was about to show off my hard-earned knowledge and read the kana when I saw the first one… then I saw you said it in the caption. Well… if you wanted to be sure, the first one does indeed say Inakadate and the last one says tsugaru-roman. Among other things.
I’m useless, useless.
posted by Aemi on 7-20-2007 at 5:26 pm
Hmmm, remarkable how similar the Inakadate landscape is most of those photos. One would almost think it was the same spot….
posted by Sophy on 7-22-2007 at 9:07 am
Sophy:
It is the same location. They do a different picture each year. Several year’s work is represented. The source link to PinkTentacle makes the fact more clear.
posted by n2y2 on 7-23-2007 at 10:09 am