Mona Lisa rice paddy art via Cool Things in Random Places
Created by intermixing the purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with the green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety, imaginative farmers in rural Japan grow rice paddy artworks in their fields on a massive scale. According to Pink Tentacle, “In recent years, a growing number of local governments around Japan have started organizing rice paddy art projects as a way to attract tourists and educate people about rice farming.”
Via Pink Tentacle: Rice paddy art in Yamagata
Via Cool Things in Random Places: Rice Field Art
Via Japanesque: Rice-paddy art, and Beauty is in the Rice of the Beholder!
And finally, there’s the Japanese website: Rice Art
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5 Comments
July 10, 2008 at 9:24 am
This is incredible. Humans have the most imaginative and innovative minds.
July 10, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Oh wow! How cool!
July 13, 2008 at 1:58 am
LOL! that is very cool.
July 16, 2008 at 3:12 am
So amazing.
September 20, 2008 at 8:12 am
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