Recently I get stumbled by this great looking article Pimp My Rice Paddy. Actually the pictures caught my eye a lots. According to these article, each year, farmers in a small town of Inakadate (Japan) show their design work skill creating crop art. The crop art successfully done by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.

For the past several years (begin 1993) the farmers in the town already make some nice crop art, and this year creation based on a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to appear like the picture shown above. Work on progress are show below, planted the the paddy from the beginning.

It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September. The picture shown above is the planning and work in progress of planting the seeds into the field, photoed back in May 27th. To be honest, I don’t know how they planning out the plan and how they precisely planted them into the right position because the crop art is pretty complicated and huge!

This is the best way to promote your town I think, planted the paddy field for daily food and same way promote your country in agricultural tourism. That is the most brilliant idea I think - even a farmer contribute small section of their work in promoting their county. Take a look for the design art before this in the photo below.

Paddy art that Japanese farmers practices actually not same as other crop art that can be found elsewhere. Because the work are made in the planted time and well planned. Where the art can be seen when the paddy grown up. Remember this, the art not made by making any circle or when the paddy already grown. It’s planted from the beginning.

One day I want to see this kind of paddy art in Malaysia. Hope soo…