“Tambo Art”, the art of the rice fields in Inakadate 田んぼアート

Rice paddies turned into colorful works of art in Aomori

Tambo art is an artistic technique that consists of creating a design with different varieties of rice directly in a rice field. Some sites have specialized in tambo art to attract tourists and revitalize their region.

Rice fields like paintings in Aomori

 

Take a rice field and imagine it as a canvas, a blank canvas on which anything is possible. Your colors will be different varieties of rice, green of course, with all its nuances but also purple, white, red.

Rice is the staple food of Japan, and there are plenty of rice paddies all over the country.

Today, from Hokkaido to Kagoshima, about twenty producers and villages participate in Tambo Art, assimilated into the Land Art movement.

Tambo art à Inakadate

Tambo art at Inakadate special 'Star Wars'

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When is the best time to admire Tambo Art? Planting takes place in May and harvesting in September thanks to volunteers. The best time to see Tambo Art 's works is between mid-July and mid-August.

Different themes are treated each year, such as in 2008, in the film "Roman Holiday", the manga characters of Tezuka, Black Jack, and Princess Sapphire or Astro Boy.

In 2019, you can admire the image of the legendary singer Hibari Misora, a performance in the film "Hard to be a man" and "Oshin" an NHK TV movie.

Tambo art à Inakadate

Tambo art at Inakadate "Japanese Legend"

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