Modern Japanese Art! Done the old fashioned way! Inakadate, Japan
Rice-paddy art was started in 1993
It was as a local revitalization project
The idea came from council meetings in the local community
The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields
From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb e mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work
A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants