One of my favorite Japanese blogs Pink Tentacle recently put up a Top 10 list (based on # of hits) of it’s biggest stories of the year. The number one post is called Pimp My Rice Paddy and is about a town in Japan that creates crop art visuals in a unique way.
From PT:
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.
Apparently Inakadate has been doing this since 1993. There’s also this Web site (in Japanese) that includes photos of each year’s piece.
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