INAKADATE, Aomori Prefecture--A late summer breeze breathed “life” into gigantic re-creations of famed masterpieces in a rice paddy field ... village began the annual rice paddy art event ...

Tanbo Art, or rice-paddy art, is a truly unique way to enjoy rice. As the fruit of an elaborate planning and painstaking labor, huge graphic artworks crop up every Summer on the rice fields of ...