[Oe List ...] FW: [InVeStworks] Wow ~ RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN

[Marsha Hahn]

Suemi,

I love that you replied about the beautiful Japanese rice fields.

Hoping you are well,
Marsha




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From: Suemi Clark <clarksuemi at yahoo.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Thu, January 28, 2010 7:50:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] FW: [InVeStworks] Wow ~ RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN


昨晩はお電話でお話が出来て，嬉しかったです．

以下の写真が送られてきました．
日本のどこか分かりますか？
面白い企画ですので，楽しんで下さい．
 Suemi T. Clark
Yarmouth Kumon
207-846-5767




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From: A.M. Noel <amnoel at comcast.net>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Thu, January 28, 2010 12:52:58 AM
Subject: [Oe List ...] FW: [InVeStworks] Wow ~ RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN


 

 The fine art of 
farming!!!
 
>RICE 
>  FIELDS OF JAPAN ..... 
>AMAZING... 
>  
> 
>Stunning 
>  crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan .. 
>
>
>But 
>  this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly 
>  planted. 
>
>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. 
>
>As summer 
>  progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to 
>  emerge. 
>
>
>
>
>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 
>
>The largest 
>  and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate, 600miles 
>  north of Toyko, 
>
>where 
>  the tradition began in 1993. 
>
>The village has now earned a 
>  reputation for its agricultural artistry and 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. 
>
>More than 150,000>  vistors come to Inakadate, 
>
>where just 8,700>  people live, every summer to see the extraordinary 
>  murals. 
>
>Each year hundreds of volunteers and 
>  villagers 
>
>plant four different varieties of rice in late May 
>  across huge swathes of paddy fields. 
>
>
>
>
>
>Napolean 
>  on horseback can be seen from the skies, 
>
>created by precision 
>  planting and months of planning between villagers and farmers in 
>  Inkadate 
>
>
>
>
>
>Fictional 
>  warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen appear in fields in the town of 
>  Yonezawa , Japan 
>
>And over the past few years, other villages have 
>  joined in with the plant designs. 
>
>Another famous rice paddy art 
>  venue is in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata 
>  prefecture. 
>
>This year's design 
>  shows the fictional 16th-century samurai warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his 
>  wife, 
>
>Osen, whose lives feature in television series 
>  Tenchijin. 
>
>Various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming 
>  areas of Japan this year, 
>
>including designs of deer 
>  dancers. 
>
>
>
>Smaller 
>  works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as 
>  this image of Doraemon and deer dancers 
>
>The farmers create the 
>  murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai 
>  rice 
>
>along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety to 
>  create the coloured patterns between planting and harvesting in 
>  September. 
>
>The murals in 
>  Inakadate cover 15,000square metres of paddy 
>  fields. 
>
>From ground level, the designs are invisible, and 
>  viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a 
>  glimpse of the work. 
>
>Rice-paddy 
>  art was started there in 1993as a 
>  local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of meetings of the village 
>  committee. 
>
>
>
>
>
>Closer 
>  to the image, the careful placement of thousands of rice plants in the paddy 
>  fields can be seen 
>
>
>
>
>The 
>  different varieties of rice plant grow alongside each other to create the 
>  masterpieces 
>
>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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Light ~ Create Miracles & Magic!

Suzanne Kincaid

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