Rice field art in the country of the rising sun. Each year these guys make new images on their field by planting rice in different patterns making various images. They use different sorts of rice for color. The result is amazing as you can see. It’s a pity they only last as long as it’s time to harvest the rice.-
While Inakadate is Japan’s most famous rice paddy decorating town, a couple of other places in Japan have joined in the fun.- - Yonezawa, Yamagata prefecture, 2007 - Check out more on Rice Field Art at this site. Also check out The Tree House Restaurant in Okinawa, Japan
68 Comments Received
June 26th, 2008 @1:57 pm
This really is cool! I’ve linked this post in my blog so others can see it as well. Thanks!
June 26th, 2008 @7:39 pm
It’s amazing the power of creativity, when people come together.
June 27th, 2008 @3:47 am
Cool form of art. That’s a lot of work for something that only last a few months (maybe not that long).
June 27th, 2008 @4:09 pm
I live in this country and rice is awesome. This is what my hot pal Ayumi said that aliens might be. So after WW2 Japanese peoples diets have changed making their jaws less powerful as the food they eat now is softer than it used to be making their jaw lines slimmer etc. So aliens are what japanese people may look like in the future and theyre time travelling back to the past to see us and thats what aliens are, time travelling asians hahah shes awesome someone should write a book on that theory lol
June 27th, 2008 @6:14 pm
this is cool. I particularly like the Hokusai wave.
June 27th, 2008 @9:26 pm
Amazing. Good work
June 27th, 2008 @11:54 pm
Now do you see why crop circles were Not made by UFOs
June 28th, 2008 @6:31 am
Art and food become one. Awesome!!
June 28th, 2008 @10:08 am
nice unique art.
June 28th, 2008 @2:57 pm
absolutely, incredibly, mind-blowing
June 28th, 2008 @7:58 pm
Its amazing!!!!
June 29th, 2008 @7:10 pm
Can you do my garden to ?
June 30th, 2008 @8:25 am
mazing and beautiful, I never knew there were so many types of rice either. great to see the positive side of the chinese people for a change too !!!!!!!!!
June 30th, 2008 @1:40 pm
Now that is amazing! How do they get it to do that?
I live in Tokyo so not many rice fields in my immediate vicinity! Never seen anything like that though - I’m blown away.
Thanks for putting that one out there.
June 30th, 2008 @9:02 pm
weird japaneses!
I love those guys, everything they do it so weird!
June 30th, 2008 @9:47 pm
now if they can work on those pesky human rights issues and treat people humanely and give them the right to leave china.
June 30th, 2008 @9:48 pm
what about rights and humane treatment … oh well … its pretty.
June 30th, 2008 @9:50 pm
just kidding
July 1st, 2008 @12:56 am
This is amazing! They should have done this in Thailand too.
July 1st, 2008 @11:09 am
there’ll never happen in thailand
July 2nd, 2008 @12:08 am
OMG!OMG!OMG! so beautiful…. people who make this kind of art are one of a kind! Salute!
July 2nd, 2008 @10:33 am
How cool is this?! Seeing this during rice planting season in Thailand…
July 2nd, 2008 @11:24 pm
obvious fake
July 3rd, 2008 @7:34 pm
that is truly something special/
July 4th, 2008 @1:45 am
These are amazing!!
FYI for some peeps… “the land of the rising sun” is Japan, not China. Get your facts straight before you make yourself look stupid.
July 4th, 2008 @6:28 am
SUGIO!!! Food and art; a perfect combination.
July 6th, 2008 @1:50 am
Wow thats really creative.
July 6th, 2008 @5:15 am
i like the last one best that spans 2 different fields. It really gives you perspective to see the buildings surrounding it also.
Very interesting.
July 6th, 2008 @5:05 pm
Why do people keep mentioning China??? China is also asian but thats about the only connection they have to Japan. They are certainly not the same place! THIS IS JAPAN!
July 6th, 2008 @5:28 pm
…and this is what we do with food in a hungry world
July 7th, 2008 @7:55 am
you can visit this.. its good
July 8th, 2008 @6:30 pm
wtf, is that for reallies?!
July 9th, 2008 @3:46 am
absolutely stunning and beautiful
July 9th, 2008 @3:49 am
is this an old tradition? it blows my mind.
July 9th, 2008 @11:04 pm
oooh, I live in Akita lot’s of rice field art here. Although none as great as this one!
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July 10th, 2008 @1:28 am
photoshopped.
July 10th, 2008 @1:28 am
craigslist food forum sucks
July 10th, 2008 @1:47 am
Those pictures are so real, and so beautiful, that I thought perhaps they were fake! Very inspiring, thanks for posting them.
- Ryan
July 10th, 2008 @9:26 am
God..! I belong to a rice-eating race. And I haven’t even thought of this! Marvelous! Rice and Art!
July 10th, 2008 @1:57 pm
Human creativity never fails to amaze me.
Inspiring results … then they eat it? Great photos! Did you take them yourself?
Phil - Views from Hong Kong
http://hkviews.wordpress.com
July 10th, 2008 @5:23 pm
Humans are a creative spirit. We can say they (the Japanese) have too much time on their hands, but this is good. Rice is sustenance and when I see something like this it strikes me as something like a sacrifice to the Gods, a way of honoring and imparting sacredness back into the Earth that sustains us. When the rice is eaten, a knowing that the grain was once a part of a whole that transposed human creativity on to Earth’s creativity, is uplifting to the human spirit and maybe even more nourishing than rice grown in ordinary conditions. In other words, this is really some lovin’ care.
July 11th, 2008 @12:57 pm
cool stuff
July 12th, 2008 @11:21 pm
Sorta puts the crop circle makers to shame.
July 13th, 2008 @10:47 pm
I was several times in Japan, but unfortunately never seen rice field arts
July 14th, 2008 @2:22 am
Those pictures are cooler than the wheat field designs people either fake or claim aliens do.
July 15th, 2008 @11:05 am
This really is cool!
July 15th, 2008 @4:42 pm
This is great - great idea
July 16th, 2008 @8:05 pm
Very good work!!
We can see wisdom from these wondeful fields!
Great job all!
July 17th, 2008 @5:30 am
that is soooooooooo coool. ITS HOT!
July 22nd, 2008 @10:39 pm
This is really cool, thanks for the read!
July 23rd, 2008 @2:21 am
this is amazing that this is possible wonder what they have planned for next year
July 24th, 2008 @11:50 am
Very cool. When I lived among the rice fields in northern Japan, I was never treated to such a site.
July 25th, 2008 @3:39 am
Excellent! I love this!
I wonder if it’s hard to ‘harvest’ this rice since you have different kinds mixed in together…
July 25th, 2008 @7:15 am
Rice paintings, stunning!
July 25th, 2008 @7:13 pm
Thanks for this great post…that is really amazing. Such care spent…truly a labor of love.
July 26th, 2008 @10:50 pm
this is japan not china people!
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