Did you know that there is a massive piece of art to behold in small corner of Inakadate Village, a little hamlet in Aomori Prefecture? It’s called a “Rice Field Art,” and in it different shades of rice are used like paint to create a massive motif out of a rice field. Though it’s　spreading throughout Japan now, Inakadate Village was the first to create such a piece, and the level of detail put on display in their work is absolutely unbelievable. They first started making the “Rice Field Art” in 1993 as a community revitalization project, and have since depicted such things as Marilyn Monroe, Hokusai’s “Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji,” and Star Wars. Last year 340,000 people came to view the “Rice Field Art,” and with this year’s depiction of the popular Taiga Drama, “Sanadamaru,” the village is seeing a lot of interest in their work.

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