I'm having a hard time believing these are real, but according to Pink Tentacle, every year since 1993, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture plant purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai and green-leafed tsugaru-roman in just the right arrangement that when they begin to grow, works of art emerge.
This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to sprout and will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.
After the jump photos from previous years.
[via Core 77]
