1. Modern Japanese Art! Done the old fashioned way! Inakadate, Japan

2. Rice-paddy art was started in 1993

3. It was as a local revitalization project

4. The idea came from council meetings in the local community

5. The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields

8. 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

9. A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants