Artist Mitsuaki Tanabe is stubborn.
In the past 20 years, he has been creating sculptures themed on a single motif: a grain of rice.
But the rice that Tanabe selects to sculpt is not the common-or-garden sort that people normally stuff themselves with. Oh no, it is the "mother of all rice" — the wild variety that's the ancestor of today's cultivated rice, and which is believed to have been sprouting on this planet for no less than 10,000 years.
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