Mysterious ¡°corn circles¡± of incredible complexity that appear overnight, or a baseball park as in the 1989 film ¡°Field of Dreams¡± ¡ª who knows what you might come across in your local rural idyll these days.
But travel some 600 km north of Tokyo, then take a drive off the beaten track. There, in a village in verdant Aomori Prefecture, who would ever expect to find exquisite Edo Period artworks sprouting amid a swaying green sea of enormous rice paddies?
It¡¯s neither a dream, a supernatural mystery, nor fiction.
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