Rice field paintings in Japan

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Japanese rice art uses different varieties of plants to produce the colors in the images.

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Rice Field Paintings October 1, 2021 Tambo - a kind of geoglyph: Japanese landscape gardening art of reproducing images in a rice field using growing rice of various varieties and colors.

In 1993, residents of the Japanese village of Inakadate, Aomori Prefecture, invented the decoration of ordinary rice fields to attract tourists.

Every April, before planting rice, they choose an artistic image and embody it on the field using varieties of rice of different colors.

Residents decide what to plant each year.

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Before planting, farmers plan projects on computers to figure out where and how to plant rice.

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When they have decided on the picture, the peasants accordingly mark the selected field (about 15 thousand square meters) and manually begin to sow it with different varieties of rice.

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The field is huge, the work is painstaking, the peasants spend their days in knee-deep water - these are the features of rice cultivation - but it is done very carefully.

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The idea is simple - turn the rice field into a panel for pictures, drawings or inscriptions made with sown rice.

And if earlier painting in the fields was a hobby of small group of enthusiasts, today, Tambo art is one of the most advanced and fastest growing art forms in Japan.

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Even rice plants are specially selected to change the color scheme.

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To create the art of rice, four different types of ancient and modern rice varieties are planted and grown.

For example, the purple and yellow kodaimai rice is used alongside the local Roman green leaf tsugaru.

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The artwork in the rice field is best viewed in September, and art becomes a harvest.

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In addition to traditional Japanese plots, images familiar to the whole world are realized in the fields: Mona Lisa was depicted in 2003, Napoleon in 2009, and Marilyn Monroe in 2013.

Many tourists come to see these works, which have existed for only a few months. More than 200,000 people have visited these places.

The residents of Inakadate were followed by rice growers in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, who began to create "their own" tambo art.

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The stunning tambo art of Japanese farmers amazes with the subtlety and clarity of its execution. It is hard to believe that this is not paint, but the sprouts of real living rice.

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The amazing sight of the paintings in the fields attracts many tourists.

Observation towers have been installed especially for those wishing to admire the unusual rice fields.

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From their height, you can thoroughly see the beautiful rice paintings created by the talented farmers of the Japanese countryside.

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MORE IMAGES HERE: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tambo+rice+painting&qpvt=tambo+rice+pai nting&tsc=ImageHoverTitle&form=IGRE&first=1

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