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Rice paddy art

Gorgeous rice paddys in Japan. They plant a few additional species with different coloration along with the standard crop. From Pink Tentacle:

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.

The website has some photos of other years as well -- gorgeous and very well done. Posted by DaveH at July 20, 2007 10:27 PM