Huh, after the famous “grain circles”, there are also rice drawings!!! But here there isn’t any paranormal phenomen or similar!
These arts are created by farmers that live in a small villane named Inakadate, with 10,000 inhabitants, located in Minamitsugaru district in Aomori province, since 1993.
And the creation of this drawings is completely HANDMADE!!! Hard to believe, heh?
Every year, nearly 900 farmer, offer themselves to breed rice and create these arts.
And what about colours?
It’s easy! They use 4 different types of rice to create the different color tones and subjects.
Once sowed, this mantain its original colour from sprout.
Here you can see an example.
It’s a pity to ruin a so-nice drawing costed a lot of work, isn’t it?
But this doesn’t demoralize the farmers! Every year they create drawings even more beautiful and complicated! They mostly got inspiration from famous arts like the Ukiyo-e. Or our Monna Lisa!
The last year they realized “The big wave” (Hokusai) and the Fuji mountain. Here you can find the images of the procedure they followed.
The sowing moment! You can clearly see how many people are working on these fantastic drawings! Obviously, soaked in water.
Here you can see the first sprouts. You can even see the drawing as a shadow!
Here the drawing is a lot more clear!
Now it’s very defined, it’s very closet o the goal! See the details of the wave and of the boat!!
And, after 9 breeding months, the drawing (the rice is sowed in january and harvested in september)
Here you can see the Fuji mountain detail.
And here you have the drawing after the harvest…
These drawings have been shown also on tv news (obviously Japanese tv news). Have a look of this video about the last drawing created, the wave and the mountain.
What to say… Japanese are always smart!
Images by: Funfever
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