Kinwashi Tour Japan Thread

• kinwashi

  4 Jul 11, 21:34

  In Japan.

  http://youtu.be/lFfntSvXRPg

• kinwashi

  4 Jul 11, 21:36

  Tsunami.

  http://youtu.be/kFWgs5gtEvI

• kinwashi

  4 Jul 11, 21:39

  
  

  Photos: Rice paddy crop art (2009)

  07 Jul 2009

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  Sengoku-period warrior [Photo]

  As summer progresses, crops of rice paddy art are beginning to emerge in Japan. The crop art -- created by strategically arranging and growing different colors of rice plants -- can be seen in farming communities across the country. The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori prefecture village of Inakadate, which has earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry. This year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall there.

  
  View from roof of Inakadate town hall [Photo]

  
  Warrior [Photo]

  
  Napoleon [Photo]

  
  View from top of warrior's head [Photo]

  
  Warrior's arm [Photo]

  
  Close-up of rice plants [Photo]

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  Another relatively famous rice paddy art venue is located in the town of Yonezawa in Yamagata prefecture. This year's work depicts the 16th-century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives are chronicled in Tenchijin, the popular, year-long historical fiction television series now airing on NHK.

  
  Naoe Kanetsugu and Osen [Photo: contri]

  
  Osen [Photo]

  
  Naoe Kanetsugu [Photo]

  
  View from top of Naoe Kanetsugu's head [Photo]

  * * * * *

  Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan. Here are a few more examples.

  
  Doraemon and deer dancers (shishi-odori), location unknown [Photo]

  
  Ladybug, Nishio, Aichi prefecture [Photo]

  
  Cow, Omi-Hachiman, Shiga prefecture [Photo]

  
  Ducks, near Fukushimagata Lagoon Water Park, Niigata prefecture [Photo]

• kinwashi

  4 Jul 11, 21:39

  Photos: Rice paddy crop art (2009)

  07 Jul 2009

  
  Sengoku-period warrior [Photo]

  As summer progresses, crops of rice paddy art are beginning to emerge in Japan. The crop art -- created by strategically arranging and growing different colors of rice plants -- can be seen in farming communities across the country. The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori prefecture village of Inakadate, which has earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry. This year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall there.

  
  View from roof of Inakadate town hall [Photo]

  
  Warrior [Photo]

  
  Napoleon [Photo]

  
  View from top of warrior's head [Photo]

  
  Warrior's arm [Photo]

  
  Close-up of rice plants [Photo]

  * * * * *

  Another relatively famous rice paddy art venue is located in the town of Yonezawa in Yamagata prefecture. This year's work depicts the 16th-century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen, whose lives are chronicled in Tenchijin, the popular, year-long historical fiction television series now airing on NHK.

  
  Naoe Kanetsugu and Osen [Photo: contri]

  
  Osen [Photo]

  
  Naoe Kanetsugu [Photo]

  
  View from top of Naoe Kanetsugu's head [Photo]

  * * * * *

  Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan. Here are a few more examples.

  
  Doraemon and deer dancers (shishi-odori), location unknown [Photo]

  
  Ladybug, Nishio, Aichi prefecture [Photo]

  
  Cow, Omi-Hachiman, Shiga prefecture [Photo]

  
  Ducks, near Fukushimagata Lagoon Water Park, Niigata prefecture [Photo]

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 19:45

  "Esashi apples" bid box of the first 800,000 yen, a record amount

  10:08 min November 08, 2009

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  800,000 yen per box specialties "Fuji San" in Morioka City Central Wholesale Market was bid Tamura-san

  Luxury Real Estate Iwate apple "apple Esashi," the first seven days of the auction, Morioka City Central Wholesale Market is 10 kilometers per box (28) Selected the "Fuji-san" is a record amount of 800,000 yen the sale. 8500 yen per about 20,000. Mr. Hiroaki Tamura runs a shop in the prefecture Tono apple (55) were awarded.

  Esashi apples are shipped primarily to Japan as a gift. The first auction was a total of over 555 boxes of apples per carton 10 kg. According to the agricultural cooperatives, has damaged this year fall by Typhoon No. 18 in early October, shipments are expected to be about 20 percent less than last year, good color paste, a stronger than usual sweetness.

  Apple's 80 million yen, wardrobe furniture 岩谷堂 Iwate (chest) was placed on the special case of the market as a gift. Mr. Tamura: "Since the first bid comes out of the finished good, prices also jumped. Even the typhoon damaged apple growers want is fine with it," he said.

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 19:48

  

  Giant Pumpkin Contest è² Kezu to heat or Ghost in Yamagata

  At midnight on October 04, 2010

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  Sell ​​pumpkin to win Mr. Tsuchida. Community Center, Yamagata Prefecture-Higashine Togo Nogawa was carrying about 10 people in the adult

  September 19, the prefectural tournament Ghost Pumpkin Contest 22th, Togo was the community center in Yamagata Prefecture Higashine Nogawa. 38 have been exhibited, Mr. Hiroshi Tsuchida Yusa city office workers (50) won the 402-kilometer pictures pumpkin. The new record exceeds the previous record of 345.2 km. 26th National Convention to be held in Kagawa Prefecture "in such competitions in Japan pumpkin" Sell to.

  Giant pumpkin varieties grow larger than the food, "Atlantic Giant". In the county tournament every year, big and heavier. Mr. Tsuchida is "intense heat was bad for growth this year, but had the result of watering and fertilizer carefully spear" and delighted to win.

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 19:49

  This is the real "fat legs" and a size of 16 characters Nagano

  37 minutes December 10, 2009 18:00

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  Omachi, Nagano-tipped radishes quinquepartite

  Tokiwa farmers Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, balanced, very similar to the human foot radish. Family, "the statement radish 16", "this is the real fat legs" and are surprised.

  40 cm in length and 10 centimeters in diameter. Tip is divided into five seems like a finger. "Thumb" has been rounded. So rare, so for now is eat, "or induce vomiting in a five-finger socks from the cold."

  Farmers this year is a good harvest and radish, radish-like logs were harvested. (K. Hirabayashi)

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:01

  Painted  rice paddy art

  
  

  

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• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:10

  story of  Paddy Art.

  http://youtu.be/08c-t0eqgU0

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:27

  2012 new innovation.

  http://youtu.be/zDRgBcR33Bs

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:28

   

  ジュ�ーブモーターショ

  http://youtu.be/TL_TXt-Mwpc

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:29

  http://youtu.be/TL_TXt-Mwpc

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:38

  New model taxi coming....

  http://youtu.be/jK4pdvOAiE8

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:42

  One day, will  this will happen here?

  http://youtu.be/KhY-xZm_Ig0

• Peeweekiat

  5 Jul 11, 20:45

  I want to go to Japan!!! God It's so AMAZING!!!!

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:45

  Foreign car in Japan.

  http://youtu.be/HQGem2NRX1U

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:54

  Toyota new taxi from Japan.

  http://youtu.be/W5okMxS8WgA

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:55

  Coming back Japanese taxi.

  http://youtu.be/f1ixsk7UqPU

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:57

  So Japan is coming back with this.

  http://youtu.be/Vj2gCPVxlHU

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 20:59

  Stylo interior .....Taxi from Japan...Toyota Sai.

  http://youtu.be/ci896mM3Yg0

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 21:02

  Exterior stylo Toyota Sai taxi.

  http://youtu.be/szpEEvTsztU

• kinwashi

  5 Jul 11, 21:05

  Engine.

  http://youtu.be/WChvJEfWAu4

• kinwashi

  6 Jul 11, 12:51

  Taxi with facility.....wheelchair bound not a probelm anymore.

  http://youtu.be/qdMoQPBj4Rc

   

   

• kinwashi

  6 Jul 11, 12:54

  Honda unicycle.

  http://youtu.be/rHTdjMKyNHo

• kinwashi

  6 Jul 11, 18:56

  Seedless persimmon deliver rich, X-rays on pollen Kurume

  0:14 minutes, 2009 November 04

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  Both Matsumoto Wase Fuyu. Without the right kind, Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture-park centuries has left the species

  Taste of autumn in bright orange, persimmon. A bit of trouble ... but take the species. New technologies are making artificial seedless persimmons to resolve this problem, such as being jointly developed by a local biotechnology company, Fukuoka Chikugo persimmon is a leading national origin, succeeded in planting local fruit farmers.

  Spread to the plains between the mountain range Kakibata the Mino River and verbatim. October 21, Kurume è�‰é‡Žç”ºå�‰æœ¨ persimmon farmers in the prefecture, Mr. Satoru Fukuda (66), persimmons fat to about 10 cm in diameter, "Matsumoto Wase (Wase) Fuyu (Winter Commission)" a few were harvested.Biotechnology company in the city witnessed 'kay one, "said Kunio Nakajima (53) and really put the knife in a horizontal, straight off. Like a seed coat surrounding the seed of the two millimeters thick, but no seeds.Sugar content is no less 16 degrees below normal sweet, really sweet and stuff oneself.

  Persimmons without seeds in the "Jiro" is in circulation. There is a species susceptible to fruit cracking Jiro, but is cultivated and the trees get so close to æ¤�Enai of male flowers, and in this way, to make it rich without a suitable species.

  Therefore, they have developed a new technology Senior Fellow of the Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Keita Sugiyama and NARO kay one.Irradiated pollen below the weak X-ray transmission, eliminating the ability to make seed pollination. Pollination the pollen was treated by X-ray, could maintain the characteristics of the breed and size, etc. of real taste. In addition, successful cryopreservation techniques to be a special life is short pollen. This farmer is always being able to hand pollination.

  However, there are challenges. Each branch is covered with a bag before flowering to prevent pollination of bees, remove the bags after hand pollination.Mr. Fukuda, who took three days to four clues cliff five bags of persimmon. President Nakajima, "The production also requires large amounts of pollen, and labor-saving, there is room for technological development," he said.

  On the other hand, our reputation is on the market. Fukuda's mid-October, persimmons grown in the same way, "Fall thickness (or issue)," No seed harvest. Department of Fukuoka to about 20 "Iwataya" We have one for sale at 2,000 yen, but was nearly sold out about three times higher in autumn with seed weight.

  November is the "King of persimmon" called "rich" also began with no seed harvest. 7 Ukiha the farmers in the prefecture and city, and this year plans to harvest a total of about 1600. Nakajima, President "We want to brand the region's rich seedless persimmon," and enthusiastic. (Yuriko Yajima)