Pimp my rice paddy


	Pimp my rice paddy
Robbert
7-24-2007 6:52 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9f4df8fe-5744-42ab-b2b4-2097d68f7b2e/9C9E5EDD-3D17-4242-8658-431EB6FB0FF1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/" href="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.pinktentacle.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: Pimp my rice paddy" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/">Pimp my rice paddy</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/74E9EB7A-8BFE-4E87-BEF9-814CE6A2277F" alt="Rice field art -- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><P>Each year, farmers in the town of <A href="http://www.vill.inakadate.aomori.jp/">Inakadate</A> in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed <EM>kodaimai</EM> rice along with their local green-leafed <EM>tsugaru-roman</EM> variety. This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Views_of_Mount_Fuji_(Hokusai)">36 Views of Mount Fuji</A> — has begun to appear (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/214916D5-73A2-4838-8253-C8AF181D6527" alt="Hokusai woodblock prints -- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><P>The residents of Inakadate have been drawing pictures with rice since 1993. Here are a few crops from the recent past, found at <A href="http://www.am.askanet.ne.jp/~tugaru/z-inakadate.htm">this site</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/DD78AFF0-071F-44CB-9D3C-1E160E38A823" alt="Rice field art -- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/2F526708-A0D4-4E2C-BC51-2CF749D691E2" alt="Rice field art -- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/5883129F-6EAF-4FB9-8E43-FBE81CB8F3F6" alt="Rice field art -- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/5B08D804-64CD-498E-A6B4-2777E7DFF225" alt="Rice field art --- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/CA04CC21-7B98-49B3-8E96-7C07DA95D8DC" alt="Rice field art -- " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/pimp-my-rice-paddy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pinktentacle.com/img/2F4B67F1-057A-473D-A737-A81401C42EBD" alt="Rice field art -- " /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9C9E5EDD-3D17-4242-8658-431EB6FB0FF1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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