Inakadate Murals

journeys · ‎24-09-2008

Just received these photographs from a collegue in Japan
The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed Tsugaru, to create the colored patterns in the time between planting and harvesting in September.

The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields.
Pity they are not visable from Google Earth.
Similiar to the Maize Mazes in the UK and USA (search Google earth for Maize Maze, dozen or so in the UK on google earth)

pierre_pierre · ‎30-07-2007

not bad

petlew · ‎30-08-2007

Certainly an improvement on crop circles anyway!!

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artificer · ‎11-08-2007

they are gorgeous. people are so inventive.

Steve · ‎13-07-2009

They are pretty cool,prefer the last one though.

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