Every year students at Japan’s Musashino Art University use leftover rice straw to make giant animal sculptures. Here are some of them, with a time-lapse video of making the straw lion
You can see the other animals here.
Straw animals
October 6, 2017 • 4:00 pm
Very nice. There will always be a lot of rice straw in Japan.
The festival is at Uwasekigata Park in Niigata City, and the sculptures (which went up at the beginning of September) are apparently up until the end of October.
Then the Burning Lion festival!
Very cool!
Ditto. I love them.