We ventured north to Hirosaki on an outing with Hiro's nieces. Inakadate has reinvigorated itself through "tambo art" - art "drawn" with different colours of planted rice. Each year they choose a different image.
This year the rice was at two locations, and unlike when I went two years ago, had an entry fee of perhaps $8 an adult.
http://ponkanchan.blogspot.jp/2011/09/rice-field-tanbo-art.html
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| Ultraman |
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| The reverse side - much more simple rice fields |
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the national kanji to symbolize 2012 - IKI - as in life (or as in the draft
of draught beer... same same perhaps) |
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| A colour test patch |
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| And at the local govt. offices - a geisha |
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| and Marilyn Monroe. |
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| Hiro was less than convinced by the comparison. |
2 comments:
That's the best study in contrasts I've seen in a long time. I refer to both the colours of the rice and the two lasses.
Their skill has improved a lot - they did one several years ago of the mona lisa that was "a horror" as Hiro would say.
I thought was quite a clever juxtaposition... Hiro was less than convinced.
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