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living pictures in rice paddies

“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.”

2007:

Rice paddy pictures of two of Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji. Image: am.askanet.ne.jp

The images remain until they are harvested:

Hokusai's wave and Mount Fuji being harvested. Image: inakadate.aomori.jp
Hokusai’s wave and Mount Fuji being harvested. Image: inakadate.aomori.jp

2006:

'Inakadate * 2006 in the village
of rice paddies * Art and the dragon.*
“Inakadate * 2006 in the village of rice paddies * Art and the dragon. * ” Image: am.askanet.ne.jp