See the amazing art in the rice field in Japan

1. Amazing Rice Fields of Japan
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2. Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice
fields in Japan . But this is no alien creation ‐
the designs have been cleverly planted.

3. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or
dye. Instead, different color's of rice plants
have been precisely and strategically arranged
and grown in the paddy fields.

4. As summer progresses and the plants shoot up,
the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

5. Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice
fields in Japan . But this is no alien creation ‐ the
designs have been cleverly planted.

6. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or
dye. Instead, different color's of rice plants have
been precisely and strategically arranged and
grown in the paddy fields.

7. As summer progresses and the plants shoot up,
the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

8. The largest and finest work is grown in the
Aomori village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of
Tokyo, where the tradition began in 1993.

9. A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been
created from hundreds of thousands of rice
plants, the color's created by using different
varieties, in Inakadate in Japan

10. Napolean on horseback can be seen from the skies,
created by precision planting and months of planning
between villagers and farmers in Inkadate

11. Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen
appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa , Japan

12. More than 150,000 visitors come to Inakadate,
where just 8,700 people live, every summer to
see the extraordinary murals.

13. Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers
plant four different varieties of rice in late May
across huge swathes of paddy fields.

14. The different varieties of rice plant grow
alongside each other to create the masterpieces

15. • In the first nine years, the village office workers and local
farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.
But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more
attention.
In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the
creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organisers used computers to precisely plot
planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that
bring the images to life.

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