Rice Field Art In Japan

Every year, farmers in the rural town Inakadate, Japan creates rice field art by using red rice in with their regular rice in special patterns. A few others fields in rural Japan also followed the trend of this beautiful rice field art.
Check out different stages of the rice field art from start to harvesting with 16 more pics after the jump.
Source: Inakadate
















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September 23rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Beautiful.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Nice!
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:15 pm
super! Very nice photos! I like it!
Do you know where I can get them on HQ?
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Nice.
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:44 pm
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September 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
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September 23rd, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Any of these could easily replace my current desktop wallpaper. Nice stuff!
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:22 pm
These are great. Was there any info with them?
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Beautiful work!!! Absolutely beautiful!
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
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September 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 pm
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September 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Very nice. Except growing an image of the Mona Lisa is clearly in violation of international copyrice law.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:09 am
aliens!
September 24th, 2007 at 6:42 am
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September 24th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
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September 24th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Count On Japanese to always innovate something!!!!
September 24th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
amazing …
is this like real ???
September 24th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Nice photoshop work
September 25th, 2007 at 8:26 am
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September 26th, 2007 at 12:01 am
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September 28th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Wow!
September 30th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
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October 1st, 2007 at 1:54 pm
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October 6th, 2007 at 11:49 am
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October 7th, 2007 at 12:01 am
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October 7th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Juer.. como se aburren los chinos, japoneses o lo que sean… como se aburren….
…
Saludos!
October 7th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Estos japoneses no hayan que hacer, en serio…
Solo hace falta que hagan “arte” con la mierda que cagan! XD
Eso si seria muy creativo y raro al mismo tiempo, aunque el olor que habria…
October 7th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
No, not nice.
RICE!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
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October 10th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Arte con campos de arroz en Japón [IMG]
Impresionantes y curiosas imágenes de auténticas obras de arte cultivadas en campos de arroz en Japón.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
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October 23rd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
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November 16th, 2007 at 10:36 am
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December 14th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
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December 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 pm
completely amazing!
January 6th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Must take an incredible amount of planning to make sure that color is in exact position. just STUPENDOUS and INCREDIBLE!!!! I can’t even draw a straight line with paper and pencil……
January 19th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
en mi paÃs el arte está desconectado de la producción y decir en voz alta que la estética y la expresión artÃstica se relacionan con el arte, provoca risas; y darme con estas cosas me llena de satisfacción y placer
solo hay que proponerse
February 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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September 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Awwwwwwsome…
November 24th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Amazing!!!!!! How they could do that? I really love japanese arts, especially rice field art, I sell rice in my country
February 5th, 2009 at 11:48 am
sugoiiiii
February 27th, 2009 at 6:51 am
REALISTIC ….. AMAZING!!!
Wow ! This is a very unique art of the Japanese. This is my first time seiing a rice field with that particular design plus Japanese characters. I even think that I can’t write those because its so difficult. How did they did that! With complete evidences?! whoah! This makes me a lot more interested of the Japanese culture because I loved it from the start, really!
arigatou gozaimashita! minnasama , okarada o taisetsu ni.
GANBATTE KUDASAI ! TAIHEN DESU’ NE! SUGOII !!!
May 29th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Evidently the talent was there at the start, but was looking for a new avenue to explore.
The precise geometry and patience, of laying out the rice, to produce such exquisite designs, is a testament to the patience, drive, and fortitude of human beings.
Congratulations to the groups of people that did this spectacular communal work!
May 31st, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Wow, amazing planning and nurturing needed for that art! And you would have to wait to see if worked out.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Simply AMAZING. But, I cannot help but ask: Is there any difference in the TASTE of the rice?
September 30th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible photoshop job. The perspective is WAY Off on most of those images.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 am
Surprising that they created a simple rice field
October 24th, 2009 at 1:03 am
OMC and anyone other, please go to on the site below:
.http://mihai-apostu.blogspot.com/2009/09/inakadate-rice-field-art-2009.html
my daughter lives in Japan and attests to the authenticity of the work.
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:24 pm
These are amazing works of art. I can’t imagine the time and patience it took to do this. Most enjoyable.
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
This shit is fake.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:36 am
dude, this is totally awesome. I think that it would take some hard work to make pictures like that with rice plants though. I hope the people who own the ricefields get payed for this, but if they don’t, well then they’re pretty cool for doing that for the heck of it. :~) rock on rice field dudes
February 12th, 2010 at 1:33 am
Remarkable work of art!
February 13th, 2010 at 6:59 am
“AMAZING”, I need to get my jaw off the floor. That is truely a labor of love, wow.
February 19th, 2010 at 8:32 am
So please… Are they a hoax or not???
February 21st, 2010 at 3:21 am
UNBELIEVABLE.
February 26th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Beautiful work Nice One……..
March 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Cool,, A what impressive field arts of talented Japanese, involved a lot of compassion. Very excitement enjoy it !!
March 31st, 2010 at 5:26 am
The first image is Japanese theater related, the next pictures that show the stages ends up being a famous woodblock painting by an artist named Hokusai (my favorite artist actually!), the words in the wave rice field say “Inakadate” (name of the area) and “Let’s protect life” and after that is the Japanese God of Thunder, Kaminari, then some warriors fighting with some uchiwa fans around them, then a Buddha-type figure with some uchiwa fans around his head and, as you know, the Mona Lisa.
This is some amazing stuff. Wow. Even when they’re planting you can faintly see the designs that the rice ends up being. This must take a lot of planning, coordination, and cooperation.
I wonder if they do eat the rice. Blue rice, green rice, black rice, yellow-green rice…wow! If they use it for meals, that’s a colorful meal you would have there.
April 27th, 2010 at 9:23 am
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April 29th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Hardworking Japanese?
Just beautiful.
Is the taste as delicious as it is beautiful?
May 26th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
it really awesome.How do they bother to do it?
Really awesome. I cant get over it. Muhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:08 pm
It´s very simple, jut love and passion for their work. that causes that you can convert it in art .
July 18th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
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July 21st, 2010 at 1:25 am
Beautifull!!!
It is a must in Chile countryside where you can see the farms (grain, grapes, horts) from the hills and can be used as an identity process for small communities