Only In Japan: Rice Paddy Art

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You’ve heard of crop circles? Well, here’s the Japanese version made of living plants. By patterned planting of four different varieties of rice plants, each with different colored leaves, Akio Nakayam and friends grew these reproductions of the Edo-period prints. Wow.

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  1. Anonymous

    Would they make a birthday card? Phil

  2. Anna

    I say wow too, if this is real, then it is just amazing. Anna :)

  3. Veerasundar

    Cool!! It takes a lots of effort and innovation for this.

  4. Carol

    Wow, subsidized farmers with way too much time on their hands.

    Wish we could do a couple of fields like that though.

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