Rice fields and Japanese characters
Browsing around Japan using Google maps I came across this village where they use a peculiar system to name the different rice fields. One single hiragana, katakana or kanji is used for each different field. I have only seen this naming system in this town, but maybe it is more usual than I think. Can somebody englighten us?
The art using rice fields is maybe a little bit more interesting than this boring maps plenty of Japanese characters.
Comments
ganchanz
23 October, 2009
I’m Japanese but I don’t know this single character name until now…
As far as I search, it seems popular only in Ishikawa.
Tornadoes28
23 October, 2009
That is interesting. I wonder what that means?
Salvador
27 October, 2009
Looks like they are using the I RO HA ordering in hiragana in one part, then in katakana in another, and also 甲乙丙 ordering in another. More interesting than using numbers, I guess!
FracArt
19 September, 2010
More photos of these amazing creations here:
http://www.fracart.fr/detranges-rizieres-au-japon/