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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.

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As summer progresses, crops of rice paddy art are beginning to emerge in Japan. The crop art — created by strategically arranging and growing different colors of rice plants — can be seen in farming communities across the country. The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori prefecture village of Inakadate, which has earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry. This year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall there.

Click Here To See A Video of 2008's Crop Growing

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Another relatively famous rice paddy art venue is located in the town of Yonezawa in Yamagata prefecture. This year’s work depicts the 16th-century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives are chronicled in Tenchijin, the popular, year-long historical fiction television series now airing on NHK.

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Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan. Here are a few more examples.

[Fly-By-Night]

They're beautiful Para, thanks!

[güttsfükk]

yeah i find it amazin they can keep that detail by growing plants

[Clubhouse]

Ingenious, nice post.

[Hotstuff]

wow how on earth do they do it from the ground its so accurate, great post thanks para

[carkees]

wow so much detail, must have taken years of practise. for how lonf have they been doing this? never heard of it before..

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time laps video of 2008's rice paddy crop art growing

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also added a video to the original post