tsugaru

Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.

Rice Paddy Crop Art | Impact Lab 2007

The expressive pieces recall the loneliness of the snow country, in the tradition of tsugaru shamisen.

Unlikely Stars 2007

But thanks to their father's insistence, Ryoichiro and Kenichi, 22, mastered the heavy tsugaru shamisen, the largest of the Japanese shamisen (three-stringed) instruments, popularized by blind minstrels in the snow country of 17th-century Tsugaru.

Unlikely Stars 2007

No wonder: the tsugaru shamisen is an archaic instrument that blends shrill, woeful melodies with relentless percussion.

Unlikely Stars 2007

The images are created by laborious handicraft: kodaimai rice, which has purple and yellow leaves, is planted among green-leaved tsugaru roman rice to create the patterns.

The Guardian World News 2009

The farmers create the murals by planting purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety.

Anime Nano! 2009

Mr Burton's great-great-grandson, Kevin Masaya Kmetz, will play the tsugaru-shamisen, a three-stringed Japanese lute.

unknown title 2009

if you click on the greatr circle link above in my post, you would see to reach hawaii the missile should pass roughly over sendai, mid-point between tsugaru and tokyo in honshu.

Pearl Harbor II? Don't belive it Sun Bin 2006

still 1000km short of hawaii, if the direction is, as it said, 'approximately via tsugaru'.

Pearl Harbor II? Don't belive it Sun Bin 2006

so the projection from tsugaru should mean about 1000-2000 km north of hawaii......i guess you can still call that 'hawaii' if you want. though a better description would be 'middle of nowhere' in the pacific

Pearl Harbor II? Don't belive it Sun Bin 2006