Harvest time is in the fall, and festivals are happening worldwide to celebrate it. The Wara Art Festival started the September-October rice season in Northern Japan. It's a very creative and fun way to use rice straws left over from the harvest.
Since 2008, the Wara Art Festival has been held in Niigata City. It started as a creative project between the city's tourism department and the Musashino Art University. Rice straw was once used in Japan to make things like tatami mats, but now wood and plastic are used most of the time instead. Students from Musashino worked together to make giant sculptures of animals out of rice straw and put them in the fields of Niigata. They have been doing this every year since.
Check out the best displays from the festival below, and if you want to go to Japan next fall, you should put it on your list of things to do.
More Info & Images Credit - Wara Art Festival (Japanese) / Facebook
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